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:Would rephrasing sentence(s) to be started with "''it is believed that''" (or some form of this) instead of making a decisive statement that this is legal? Also, is this related to Pokémon Prism being DMCA'd within the past 24 hours of this edit? --[[User:Wildgoosespeeder|Wildgoosespeeder]] ([[User talk:Wildgoosespeeder|talk]]) 05:49, 22 December 2016 (UTC) | :Would rephrasing sentence(s) to be started with "''it is believed that''" (or some form of this) instead of making a decisive statement that this is legal? Also, is this related to Pokémon Prism being DMCA'd within the past 24 hours of this edit? --[[User:Wildgoosespeeder|Wildgoosespeeder]] ([[User talk:Wildgoosespeeder|talk]]) 05:49, 22 December 2016 (UTC) | ||
::No. "It is believed" and most other similar formulation still carry a lot of implications about the actual situation. Short of extensive sources (and I mean legal-grade sources : case law, professional legal articles, etc), and even then I'm not sure we should, this is a position we have no business taking. --[[User:Evil Figment|Evil Figment]] ([[User talk:Evil Figment|talk]]) 06:19, 22 December 2016 (UTC) | ::No. "It is believed" and most other similar formulation still carry a lot of implications about the actual situation. Short of extensive sources (and I mean legal-grade sources : case law, professional legal articles, etc), and even then I'm not sure we should, this is a position we have no business taking. --[[User:Evil Figment|Evil Figment]] ([[User talk:Evil Figment|talk]]) 06:19, 22 December 2016 (UTC) | ||
:::I'm no lawyer but I heard that ROM hacking is reverse engineering and reverse engineering is considered fair use. Don't quote me on this. This needs to be researched. Would that work if we had proper citations that legally support the stance of ROM hacking? --[[User:Wildgoosespeeder|Wildgoosespeeder]] ([[User talk:Wildgoosespeeder|talk]]) 07:03, 22 December 2016 (UTC) | |||