Thread:USS HERO/@comment-55052-20180424003217/@comment-55052-20180429204232

USS HERO wrote: Usscantabrian wrote: USS HERO wrote: no it not allowed, also i talked to the staff, and he said all of this are stolen, but we are doing fair use, so no action with the story can be taken, but if it stolen from you all i'll see what i can do. and i'll unblock the person now. It is not fair use if it is stolen from a Web site outside of Wiki, which it is. Hi,

When it comes to fan faction, you are all "stealing" from the copyright owner (I only use that word because you did, not accusing anyone of anything). By making use of Star Trek characters and setting, you are all operating under the fair use protections of copyright law. One fan fiction writer would have very little copyright grounds to stand on against another, even if they did make use of their work. That means it's generally a matter of good manners and trying to be nice to other creators and stick to fan fiction community best practices. It is probably bad form to use another person's character, but it isn't necessarily a copyright violation or breach of our Terms of Use (http://www.wikia.com/Terms_of_Use), so nnot the type of thing we interfere with directly.

Best,

__ Sean M. FANDOM Community Support

A few issues with this:
 * We're talking about things being copied word-for-word from both other wikis and external Web sites, and people representing that work as their own. That is slightly different from what Sean is talking about, which is merely copying an article, et cetera, from another wiki. What is happening is like copying an entire chapter of a Harry Potter book by J.K. Rowling and saying you wrote it.
 * Sean says, "not the type of thing we [the Fandom staff] interfere with directly," which puts the responsibility back on the wiki administrators to take action. As we have said several times, other wikis (Star Trek Expanded Universe, for example) have banned users permanently for plagiarism. This was an action taken by the wiki administrators themselves.

So the ball actually is in the Memory Delta administrators court with regards to actions to be taken.

Hope this makes sense.