User blog comment:P進大好きbot/Images without Copyright/@comment-3427444-20200131171829/@comment-35470197-20200201014300

> What if someone uploaded a file that was made by the user himself and didn't specify its copyright status?

It is simply a bad submission. See the following rules: We need to specify the status in order to have other to know the status.
 * https://community.fandom.com/wiki/Help:File_copyright_tags
 * https://www.fandom.com/licensing

> I mean, some of those images were probably years old, why bother enforcing it now?

Imagine that someone stole your money but you do not notice it. Does it mean that the thief is now allowed to feely steal your money? No way. Even if the community did not notice the issue in the past years, it is irrelevant to the fact that it is not allowed.

> I don't get how one can "steal" a digital image that had literally no prevention of being saved and uploaded to another website.

Don't you even know what copyright consists of? A poster without license is not allowed to copy images. If you understand laws on intellectual property rights, then I could not understand what you are saying. Why are you referring to the digitality of an image? Is it relavant to this topic? Literally, there are obvious preventions from laws and rules. Or is it due to a language barrier? (As far as I know, there are such countries which allow citizens to deal with unlicensed materials, but I guess that your country is not.)

> And it's not like the people who made those images are complaining about them being used.

If you are talking about Antragsdelikt, it does not mean that we are morally allowed to commit anything until the one possessing the right of accusation requires to stop it. What you are saying sounds something like "we can do anything illegal as long as polices do not notice it".