Board Thread:Wikia Discussion/@comment-22224-20190129194843/@comment-22224-20190130024135

Meatwadsan wrote:

Firstly, this appears to violate Wikia's own policies regarding DMCA, which gives users three violations before action is taken against their account.

This is not taking action against an individual user account, but acting upon a valid DMCA takedown notice for content on a community.

Secondly, nearly all Fandom/Wikia images are protected under 17 U.S. Code § 107 and court precedent.

Fair use is something that users are allowed to assert in their User-Generated Content but if we receive a DMCA takedown notice we're required to act on it.

Thirdly, when a Safe Harbor notifies its users of pending DMCA action, they notify or link their own Safe Harbor policies regarding copyrighted material and recourse.

All relevant information is included on this help page.

Lastly, this DMCA notice fails to appear in the Lumen Database.

Fandom traditionally does not file the details into the Lumen Database (via Chilling Effects) until we have completed action on the notice. We have begun the process early to assuage any concerns regarding that you have: https://lumendatabase.org/notices/17986215#