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All I could find relating to the Terry Nation issue shutdown IMDB message board. (http://m.imdb.com/title/tt4116284/board/threads/266033267/) The Google results gave me this quote: "However, the BBC never asked Terry Nation's estate about this, and that..."

- IMBD Message Board

Then the same result quotes another part of the page: "...cleared again to have their likeness in The LEGO Batman Movie."

- IMDB Message Board

Whether this forms anything substantial I don't know, considering it was two parts of the webpage.

Another thing I could find connecting Terry Nation and the LEGO Batman Movie was from a Doctor Who wordpress site (https://mydoctorwhoblog.wordpress.com/2017/02/08/lego-my-daleks/): "But the best bit for us, the Doctor Who fan, were the references and the appearance of evil “British Robots” (apparently they couldn’t afford the Terry Nation Estate)."

- mydoctor1962

The last thing I could find was a reply to a comment section here (http://merchandise.thedoctorwhosite.co.uk/the-lego-batman-movie/): One commenter is wondering why they're called British Robots. Here's the response: "It’s for copyright reasons they can use the image but not the name, Terry nation’s estate own the daleks name"

- The real master

None of this is very reliable, but it's what I could find.