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Supposedly, when other wikis like Herofactorypedia got into these books, Wikia was contacted and they said it was perfectly legal. Although a wiki like this being compiled and sold might be a different case, since it publishes many people's intellectual properties without their consent.

 

If you can find a way to contact Amazon about this publisher, by all means do so.

LEGO should have grounds for a lawsuit on this, it being copyright infringement in all. Even if they consented to this, it's still wrong. Plus, the fact that nobody was informed or made aware of this? This is pretty big stuff, one way or another.

 

Not sure how many have downloaded some of these stories, but if there were more than ten downloads, that's at least two hundred dollars in all that this 'Wikia' has been making.

 

And, I agree with Chols. Contact Amazon ASAP - the sooner, the better.

Techincally, LEGO cannot do anything about this. Wikis can contain information on their IPs for reference purposes. Furthermore, publishing such content isn't necessarily illegal either. What seems to be illegal here is that "Books LLC" is just printing random wikia books (and selling them at ridiculous prices too). The wiki content is being taken and sold for someone else's commercial use, which violates Creative Commons licensing.

I say get some of the Admins of BZP to contact Amazon. Maybe they can have something to say about it.

 

Any way, this is crazy. Who could sell stories from BZP on Amazon?

 

-Mef