Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-2240864-20180814202900/@comment-25941663-20180814225416

Llanunall wrote: MrDupin wrote: Slimebeast wrote: Maybe I've misunderstood your post, but it sounds like you're only deleting stories if they're marked with a noncopliant license. You must delete all stories with no license stated, as well, regardless of marking. You cannot legally place a license on someone else's work unless the original creator uploaded it while agreeing to your license.

Content posted on the wiki (and any wiki) is by default licensed as CC-BY-SA. This is stated on the front page (also on the terms of service and the licensing agreement). Ignorance of this is not an excuse. People who didn't read this and posted their story on here agreed to post this under the particular license, so these stories will not be deleted unless the authors want to. What they are saying is that we cannot license stories we don't own the copyright to under the CC-By-SA license.

Example, someone uploads a story they found online but don't attribute it or add a license header. In this case we would need to get into contact with the poster to find out if they are the author. If they are not the author then we need to either delete the pasta, as the author did not agree to license it, or track down the author and see if they will license it under CC-By-SA.

That would be a huge overkill. I can't recall anybody enforcing their copyright here, so I doubt there are many cases such as the above.

Besides, if we go by this logic, every story on the wiki not posted by the original author should be deleted. And even then, how do we know if they really are the original author? It's either the whole wiki is deleted, or the stories with no licensing stay.

I am 100% sure this will not be an issue. As an example, from what I understand, when you post on Reddit you immediately copyright your work. So, if I post a story there, even if it's not mine, I get the copyright to it. There is nothing preventing me from doing that, and Reddit is fine. So we are fine too.

I am no lawyer, but I highly doubt the burden in these cases falls on the host. There would be nothing on the internet if that was the case.