Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26221704-20160822185129/@comment-27448264-20160823063108

Less copyright dodging and more along the lines of courtesy to the common artist. Making a fight thumbnail using the template takes like five minutes tops in any decent editing program, whereas actually drawing that fanart takes hours if not more. My reasoning lies in that if you can put in the time to research and write a Death Battle, then it should be a snap to just copy a link from what you found on Google Images and just slap it at the bottom, basically.

So yeah, not really as pressing as avoiding a lawsuit, but just to maintain some credibility here, y'know? The rule would probably only apply to future fights from here on, just for convenience's sake.