Thread:Daifukkatsu/@comment-1687225-20130812030329/@comment-6003396-20130820053010

Sorry for the wait, I just got around to reading this.

Licensing is basically a formal agreement between two or more entities for distributing or displaying copyrighted intellectual property.

If this intellectual property was an original image created by you (with original content, or if it was a parody on existing property or something), and you posted it on the internet and some person or entity decided to use this image in an advertisement, for example, without your consent (i.e. without a license), then (assuming that you could prove that this work belonged to you) you would have a basis to sue them under common law copyright infringement (my understanding).

Another example, if some random person put this original image of yours on a wiki without your permission, you would have a legitimate reason to contact this person or the owners of the wiki site and request to have it taken down.

There is an interesting exception to all of this, and that is if the work was a parody of existing material. The author of the parody would not have to obtain a license and would have no legal obligation to the owners of the original work, even if the author made a lot of money off of the parody in the process.

I hope this helped, but keep in mind I am no expert on any of this, so I encourage you to do your own research or even consult with someone who deals with this issue professionally if you have some kind of legitimate concern.