Forum:Creating a Formal Copyright Policy

HPW:POLICY currently stipulates the following regarding the use of copyrighted material on this wiki: "All the content in this wiki (i.e. text, images, music) must be in the public domain; unless you have obtained permission to use them publicly, copyrighted files will be removed, no matter how nicely written or beautifully shot."

This conflicts profoundly with actual practice on this wiki. We use many images from the books, films, and video games on fair use grounds, in order to supplement and reference text within articles.

I'm proposing that we update HPW:POLICY to bring it into line with current practice where the use of copyrighted material is concerned, or else create another, new policy to deal specifically the use of copyrighted material. It could also contain provisions for dealing with requests to remove copyrighted material (I raised this issue previously). &#x2605; S t a r s t u f f  (Owl me!) 23:50, May 17, 2016 (UTC)