User blog:Foreva/Fanart licensing

Hi everyone, I've been writing a set of rules for images used on Hunterpedia. Everything went smoothly until I bumped into the problem of fanart. You know, as Hunterpedia is hosted on US servers, every images here MUST be licensed. It's not hard to give screenshots or images cropped from the manga proper licenses but I truly don't know what to do with fan arts--they are practically a legal minefield. I'm using a fan art myself, but even after I went to the page of the author on pixiv, I found no statement whatsoever by him on the matter of the image's copyright. And because I don't speak Japanese, it's impossible to ask him about the license under which he released the fan art.

I'm not against the personal use of fan art on Hunterpedia but if this licensing problem can't be solved, we may have to forbid them to ensure Hunterpedia won't be taken down by the true owners of Hunter x Hunter in the future. We have 2 weeks from now on to discuss this problem. Please let me know your opinions.