Screen shots

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Hi, I'm Japanese Wikia staff. I have a question about screen shots.

How do you treat screen shots? About EQ2 screen shots, copyright infomation must be added to them, but it means they are not under free license and images in Wikia must be under free license. How do you solute that problem? Fair use?

Thanks.

-- Yukichi / Shun ( Talk ) 07:35, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Screenshots from in the game are typically treated under fair use. This site is actively perused by SOE employees (they even wrote about it in their new magazine). My guess is that if they had a serious problem with the idea of fair use on the screenshots we make available, that magazine article wouldn't have been written.-- Kodia 13:34, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

Here's the official SOE policy on the issue:

SOE hereby grants to each EverQuest account subscriber that is in good standing and with the grant automatically revoked as of the moment that the subscriber's account is no longer in good standing (an "EQ Subscriber"), a limited, personal, nonexclusive, nontransferable, nonassignable and fully revocable license to use (a) the EverQuest name, and (b) trademarks and copyrighted material from EverQuest including NPC names and images, diety and monster names and images, geographical names, item names and images, character names and images, background art, and screenshots containing any of the foregoing (collectively, "the SOE Property"), solely to be used for material (for example, so-called "fan fiction" and "fan artwork") that the EQ Subscriber posts to and/or transmits through SOE's Communication Features ("Licensed Content") in accordance with these Terms of Service -- and for no other use. Each EQ Subscriber promises SOE that any Licensed Content that he or she provides shall comply in all respects with these Terms of Service.

Sorry about the delay. It took me a little while to get the Terms of Service article on the SOE website to load.-- Kodia 14:27, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for many information. So, Pipa, ja.eq2.wikia admin, decided to use fair use. In Japan, fair use isn't allowed to use. But we will follow Wikia policy that allows to use fair use. If problem happens, I may consult with you or users on eq2.wikia.com again.

Thanks for all your efforts. -- Yukichi / Shun ( Talk ) 15:31, 6 September 2007 (UTC)