Board Thread:Inclusion debates/@comment-20607870-20160125093207/@comment-188432-20160125195454

Regardless of authorship, admin and leading users have discussed this at length. It's beyond NOTVALID; we're not going to allow its coverage at all. Please do not re-emplace anything which has been deleted. Here are a number of reasons why, in no particular order.


 * This situation is not like BBV at all. BBV felt secure enough in their legal position to actually assert copyright. That's not the case here.
 * BBV was a publisher of other peoples' scripts. This is merely self-published, a clear tip-off that it's just fan fic.
 * Its status as a self-published work is evident by the text itself. No professional publisher would allow something so replete with grammatical errors and typos make it to published form. Not to mention the fact that it's in all caps.
 * The description of a character clearly meant to be the Doctor has enough specificity that it would actually take a lawyer to parse whether it's meant to be the Doctor. We're not gettin' near that mess — for exactly the same reasons we banished some parts of Faction Paradox from the wiki.
 * Legal use of BBC-owned characters in BBV productions, like Liz Shaw, can be verified through third parties, not merely a hastily-typed note at the top of the story.
 * The note doesn't actually cover the Piscons, so it doesn't work, legally. The Time of the Piscons asserts that Nev Fountain gave his permission to use the Pisons, not the Piscons. I'm afraid that copyright status is very specific. This typo isn't just a typo: it flatly doesn't count.

For these reasons, and probably several others, this is just fan fic.