Thread:Venomblazer/@comment-104549-20180617182745/@comment-104549-20180620222001

Let's take this one as our example; we'll work with that until it's right, then you can apply the same principles to the others. Here are the issues: I will not advise you as to whether your work is derivative. However, I advise you to take note of, "The unauthorized adaption of a work may constitute copyright infringement." So if you're claiming the work is derivative, I suggest you be pretty sure you have the right to use the original image in the first place.
 * 1) The link provided is not the source. For images which originally appeared online, the specific jpg or other image file isn't the source; the source is the specific web page on which that file appears.  So if you went to a web page, found that image, and clicked "View Image" to get the image file, instead you should go to the web page, find the image...and stop.  To follow my earlier example, this is a source; this is not.  That web page is the source, if the image appeared there originally.  Which leads me to...
 * 2)  is never the artist. It may be the source, if that image originally appeared on the show and you just happened to find a web page with the same image.  You'll have to figure that out.  If the image originally appeared in TCW, make sure you list (and bluelink) to the specific episode also.
 * 3) As to whether you are the artist or not (and therefore whether your licensing template is right or not), I suggest you read this document from the U.S. Copyright Office about derivative works. It's a quick read and explains the subject.  There's also  on the same subject.  Basically:
 * 4) If it's not a derivative work, then you aren't the copyright holder and the licensing template is wrong.
 * 5) If it is a derivative work, then you are the copyright holder. You'd also be the artist, though you would still need to reference the original image (something like "User-made based on [link]").