Thread:CureHibiki/@comment-1515612-20191004012533/@comment-26868869-20191010223510

If a youtube video can get a copyright strike, so can an ogg and be taken down. And I would be understanding of that. But not this, really?

I stand by what I said before, the old albums are not available for buying, not on japanese amazon or the toei shop, and even "used CDs" online shops like CDJapan do not have them anymore. Uploading them should be okay. If Toei does contact you, then that is that. You cannot waltz into the wiki, demand a center piece of our work to be removed and then threaten us with bans if we do not comply. That other wikis do not use full ogg files isn't true. In the end, we are the only ones being punished for uploading outdates vocal albums that are only interesting to Pretty Cure fans specifically.

Youtube takes more bandwith for users to load, because it is a VIDEO and not an audio file. It's user based and not community upload based. They do not fit into tables well. They take ages to upload individually. You HAVE to compromise with us in some way. I am willing to gather all the evidence that the old albums are indeed lost to time, and I will take down all the new ones and replace them with previews if it takes that. If you would actually get a message from Toei for the old audio files, no problem, we just take it down.

"I don't know what will be the right places for you, but things like Spotify and iTunes are a good start." I must laugh. I thought the point was that we do not own the files, so how are we supposed to put them on official creators only based sites like iTunes and Spotify? Pretty Cure is region locked in every way. You can only purchase and watch from Japan. They do not collaborate with amazon. The people who these albums are aimed at are 3-7 year old girls in Japan. They will not care to put it on Spotify.

"This is the length that Wikipedia allows, and they are very knowledgeable about what is reasonable under fair use."

Wikipedia also does not allow screenshots, lyrics to be written out all the way unless it is a community owned poem from 1587, resources, spoilers, overly detailed descriptions and unsourced writing. Wikia on the other hand allows all of those things AND audio. This website format was always on the light side of fair use while wikipedia is the hard side.