Board Thread:Questions and answers/@comment-30049823-20200120220238/@comment-2234967-20200123015623

Pedroh1999 wrote: Rskm1 wrote: Hey admins! What's the policy on image inclusion in articles, when they're just swiped from another site? Are they okay to use in Wiki articles? Should we credit them?

I found these gems using google image search, but the links take me to nonfunctioning BlasterHub pages that don't actually SHOW the image anymore, even though the image host still has the data.mag. ...OK... This looks like a gray area...? We are not allowed to use images from iSoaker, but the rest, I don't know. Even if the images are not in the website anymore.

Boss, come here real quick, please? Can you help? iSoaker specifically requested that we not use their images, if I can remember correctly. Under fair use and other such legalities, we are allowed to use images, since they're being used as educational-like reasons. Providing a source to images in the file info is definitely preferred if they're not stock photos (ie: screengrabs from YouTube, work done by other people, etc.) Some articles include a small copyright/source text to the original owner/website, just to double down on that.

So, we should be allowed to use these images, unless BlasterHub approaches us and requests we take them down.