Forum:Copyright

Look, I know most of the editors who have heard from me concerning copyrights are probably very weary of all my yapping away about this legal issue and that legal issue. It's finally time that we begin to get serious about these images. Nearly all of the images and other content on this wiki is plagiarized, and we need to do something about it.

We have several options:


 * 1) Remove the images. This one comes to mind right off the bat, but it is dismissed just as soon. There are far too many images and losing them would make MLNWiki much less professional and visually informative.
 * 2) Compress the images. I have read a bit of U.S. copyright law on images, and I discovered that it is not considered plagiarism if the images are compressed to a certain level. I would like to point out, however, that many of our images are in PNG format, and very few of us on this wiki know how to set compression levels for images.
 * 3) Make an agreement with the LEGO Group. It's possible, but I do not know whether Wikia will approve of this decision.
 * 4) Leave them and hope nobody notices. The very decision I would not like to make.

Feel free to ignore this message and laugh at my desperate ranting, but it is truly time we thought about this.

02:26, 4 May 2009 (UTC)