Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-45314928-20200727170605/@comment-6032121-20200727222905

How many ways can I rephrase this? No one single person owns everything about Gallifrey. The BBC happen to own the name "Gallifrey" and the fact that it's orange. But per T:NPOV, you can't say the fact that it is peopled with the Great Houses, or that one of its main landmarks is the Caldera, is any less important to what Gallifrey is than "it's orange" and "it's called Gallifrey". (As it happens, according to equally-valid other accounts, it's called Jewel, instead.)

Ten different people can own different facets of the copyright, and every single of them will, in in-universe terms, be talking about the same sodding rock. Doesn't mean any of them are breaking copyright. You could just as easily say that the BBC aren't licensed to use the Time Lords, because they're not allowed to mention Omega without Bob Baker's say so and Omega is unquestionably an essential elements of who the Time Lords are.