All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XVIII

[robkelk]

TVT was assuming "we didn't know it was copyrighted" was an excuse (it isn't).

TV Tropes is and always was a bstion of Artistice License Law, between Feddie and Fighteer.

I say strike that passage from our guidelines, replace it with a link to the appropriate licensing passage on the appropriate page, and leave another bit of TVT corruption behind us.

Oh, and let whoever it was pointed you at this -- I'm too lazy to go to recent changes right now and see -- that it's a non-issue now.

Just noticed and fixed another Artistic License Law statement in the same section. They claimed that screenshots of a CC-BY-SA wiki were fair use. They aren't - the "SA" means that derivative works such as screenshots are also CC-BY-SA. EDIT: And "No Derivatives" means "no resizing, because that's a derivative". And other weirdness. I just fixed a lot of errors and put a yellow banner across the top of the page telling people to re-read the section.

Honestly - did nobody at TV Tropes read the legal documents that they chose to function under?