Forum:Quick question to the admins

I was just wondering if the admins for this site have permission from Konami to use any of the licensed content? I want to create my own strategy site, and I need to know if I can do so without the permissions, or if I have to get permission to use the licensed content. Macroman2011 (talk • contribs) 16:45, January 31, 2011 (UTC)

I thought Deltaneos was going to say something on this. He missed it I guess. The next best thing. A quote from Deltaneos:

The vast majority of images on this site, are copyrighted. In the context of articles, we can use them under the fair use. Fair use lets us use copyrighted material, without permission from the owner. It limits us in how we can use such material however. Illustrating articles on the subject of the image counts as fair use.

— Forum:Use image, Deltaneos

There's also a lot more of other stuff we can/can't do. Like, we can take samples of audio and video, but we're not allowed to upload the while audio or video file, nor are we allowed to put up complete magazine scans, we're not meant to link to them either. -Falzar FZ- (talk page|useful stuff) 12:42, February 5, 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for the information. this will definitely help me out a lot. The strategy site I am building is for my design portfolio for school, and part of the assignment was to get permissions, if needed, for any copyrighted materials I use. With this information I should be able to create my site and not lose any points off my grade. If you know anyone willing to write some articles on the subject of strategy, please let me know. I need at least 3 articles on basic strategies, 3 on intermediate strategies and 3 on advanced strategies. Anyone willing to do this for me will be credited for their work. Macroman2011 (talk • contribs) 13:09, February 5, 2011 (UTC)

Keep in mind that you need to clearly indicate that the images are not yours, and that you are using them without permission but you believe that their use falls under fair use. There are a few ways you could do this; the obvious method would be to include this in a caption under each image, though that could get messy. You could also link to a central license/permissions page, but I think it would require a separate fair-use note for each copyrighted image you use (at the very least, that would let you specify your source for each image used, though). 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{? · ☎ Dinoguy1000} 16:56, February 5, 2011 (UTC)