Board Thread:Debating Club/@comment-3493059-20140922143636/@comment-4934571-20140923181616

Well, I was thinking about it and maybe there IS a way to have those pictures here. As I said, it seems Once Upon a Time Wiki has a permission from ABC. Maybe we could contact CBC and they would give us permission to use their pictures. And if they appear somewhere else, it won't be our problem. But that's just an idea.

So we think the same - no links on wiki articles. We can't just support (?) illegal copies or something. For example, I found almost all episodes of the animated series (the Sullivan one) on YouTube (some in Turkish and some in Arabic, I think), but I did not put the link on the article.

The thing you suggest would be good for screencaps. However, I did not take all of them, so it would be complicated to include the name of person who took it. However, for the promo pictures, we should make something very professional that would say that we found them "insert source", we do not own anything etc.

The same for photos of actors and actresses - but this is even more complicated. You know, usually image banks (?) store a lot of pictures of celebrities. However, you have to pay them if you want to use the pictures on your website or magazine/newspapers. For instance: www.something.com paid for some photo of Megan Follows. I didn't know that this picture comes from image bank and I simply dowloaded it and uploaded here. Those banks even sue people for using their photos! So... that's why I want to include the source website name and some disclaimer or something.

I checked other Wikis and not every one of them has some rules or policy about images. For example, on Vampire Diaries Wiki they have a thousand photos of Nina Dobrev, abother thousand of Ian Somerhalder - and there is nothing. No permission, no copyright, nothing! And I want to avoid it.

(Don't worry, it wasn't that long. :D )