User blog comment:Solomus-BlackWing/Grim dark wiki/@comment-4428210-20120624232121/@comment-2045915-20120625010536

I agree with Brother Ipax, and myself once argued the point that nothing here is independent, since its all dependent on someone else's copyright and is simply a repackaging of that work. We do nothing original, and I do not want to seem like we are taking credit for the real work of others. However, believe it or not, under American copyright law, much of what is written (not the art) on this wiki would be protected as what is called a "derivative work" if we were not on Wikia, which uses the so-called "copyleft" rules and which then applies them to every wiki in its legal umbrella. For instance, the Lexicanum's content is actually protected and if you copy it, they can legally file a claim under the DCMA to get it removed, just like the actual Intellectual Property holder! Additionally, on Amazon (I couldn't believe this myself) there is a company connected to Wikia that sells the entire written content of this wiki as a published book for $20.00! So somebody thinks what we've done is worth trying to make a buck. However, the question was less one of "stealing" since content here cannot be legally stolen as on the Lexicanum, than an unethical copying, in most cases without proper attribution under wikia rules, of what was still a lot of hard work by many other people to get back at one admin. But that's it. It's over. I was informed the copy of this wiki would be shut down by its creator. The issue was resolved and it's done. Let's all just please get back to building this wiki and making it the best repository of Warhammer 40k lore that it can be.