Thread:MinecraftRogue/@comment-4513691-20121014075517/@comment-2076989-20121015205608

Oh boy. This subject. I hear it a million times over.

This is not copyright infringement. It's a screenshot "owned" by someone else. If you go to Paris, France and take a picture with your digital camera of the Eiffel tower, that picture does not automatically become the "copyright" of Gustave Eiffel, even if he was alive or dead. Even if you just so happen to get a portion of the photo to include a caricature of someone in the plaza that's being done by an artist, it's -still- not copyright.

The screenshot does "belong" to someone but it's not copyrighted. Out of common courtesy, we should be asking if we can use screenshots taken by other people but it's not really required. We should be creating our own screenshots, though, irregardless. Same thing with using our own text. I'd easily estimate that 75-80% of the text on this wiki is copy pasted from other wiki's, which is sad and has landed us in trouble more than once.