User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-45314928-20200727170605/@comment-6032121-20200727175649

User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-45314928-20200727170605/@comment-6032121-20200727175649 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.

Here's an analogy: Irving Braxiatel is established as a Time Lord in his earliest appearances in the Virgin New Adventures. But he continues to appear in stories published after the VNAs lost the Doctor Who license. We don't suddenly consider these stories to refer to a different individual, an "Irving Braxiatel (Dragons' Wrath)" placed in Category:Individuals of unknown species, nor create a page for "Irving Braxiatel's species" for those instances when Benny mentions "Brax's lot" in a non-copyright-infringing way.

By the same token, the Homeworld of the Great Houses starts out as Gallifrey, and it remains Gallifrey even in later War in Heaven stories which don't have the license to repeat that its name is Gallifrey, or that it has a burnt orange sky and people in silly hats.