Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-22930393-20161211213451/@comment-3055683-20161214212920

Let me clear things up. As Montonius explained it to me. In reality this guy is basically in violation of the Creative Common License, NOT Copyright. This simply requires attribution of the source, and that's it. We're not blameless ourselves, as we do utilise much of the source material here on the wiki, and technically it's all copyrighted by GW. We don't want GW's scrutiny falling on us -- basically ever. However, we don't believe Youtube even enforces Creative Commons, since all their enforcement systems are automated. Probably not. The only way to resolve this issue would be to somehow get this guy to voluntarily attribute us, or if Youtube would enforce Creative Commons.

But I would also like to point out that this has become common on Youtube -- check out the guy who "explains Star Wars" by simply copying all the stuff off their wiki. Honestly, we technically could just create a competitor and call it the official WH40K Wiki Youtube channel -- but we don't want the GW copyright police coming after us. Montonius and I still remember when the long arm of GW Legal came after all GW fan sites back in the 90's and shut down over 90% of them for using ANY source material or even one piece of artwork on their website. They even forced fanon writing websites to be taken down due to the fact the writers were using 'intellectual property'. Though they've lightened up in recent years, we don't want the eyes of GW falling upon this wiki. As it would be a shame if they decided to slap us with some kind of legal action. So, unfortunately all we can do is let sleeping dogs lie.