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There appear to be some serious copyright issues with this site.
Many of the projects hosted here (Lostpedia, Gamewikis, Memory Alpha) appear to be under some sort of non-commercial Creative Commons licence. Invariably, those projects started as
independents, until someone (usually one of the founders) sold the underlying domain name to Wikia (now FANDOM) - often over the community's objections. These projects mostly date to 2004-05. Wikia attempted to contract itself out of the "non-commercial" terms of the CC-NC licences in 2012... but that's too little, too late. Because of the way wiki works, every post to an existing page (and every translation of an existing page) creates a derivative work based on the previous version... and that derivative work must be subject to the non-commercial terms of the original. As such, this site looks to be violating copyright by using non-commercially licenced content and displaying intrusive commercial display advertisements against that content. Sadly, the cost of lawyers to get the infringing content shut down would be prohibitive. I've tried. In theory, there's also the right of the individual contributors to take their content and go elsewhere... but that gets hit with search engine duplicate content penalties. Wikia/FANDOM knows this. Pretty much the only way to win is not to play.
Review date 2020-01-11 17:44:43