User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-45314928-20200727170605/@comment-6032121-20200727175352

User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-45314928-20200727170605/@comment-6032121-20200727175352 You write: “I don't know of any appearance of Bernice Summerfield that mentions the Doctor (by name) without a license to do so?” No, but Bernice is still the same person even in stories which don't have the license to mention a crucial facet of who she is (namely "a companion of the Seventh Doctor"). This is the same principle as the Homeworld being the same in stories which are allowed to mention the crucial fact "it's got orange skies and it's called Gallifrey", and in stories which are not.

Slightly closer analogy: Irving Braxiatel. He is still a Time Lord even in Virgin novels that don't have the license to say he's a Time Lord. We don't suddenly create a separate page for Irving Braxiatel (Dragon's Wrath) the humanoid of indeterminate species, just because from that point on, he is no longer allowed to say he's a Time Lord. By the same token, the Homeworld is still Gallifrey, and Homeworlders are still Time Lords, even in stories published without the rights to the words "Gallifrey" and "Time Lords".