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The BBC used to be much more harsh on creators in the Pre-2013 years. Back in the day, IDW could barely do any interesting stories due to the threat of over-lapping with the TV show.

They couldn't even do a multi-Doctor story. The Forgotten as as close as anyone would let them go. A story where the Doctor has a hologram dress up as his dead friends so he can go roleplay.

These days people like Titan and DWM can get away with almost anything because the Whoniverse is a lot less strict and allows for fun ideas. The Twelfth Doctor meeting the Delgado Master in the last DWM story would not have been allowed ten years ago. Nor would a sequel to An Unearthly Child or The Enemy of the World, but we've seen comic sequels to both of those stories in the last four years.

So it's not that surprising that the modern BBC wouldn't get antsy about everything.

Furthermore you're claiming that there wasn't BBC intervention or comments with no evidence. We don't have any quotes saying "Oh the BBC didn't even know we were doing this." For all you know the BBC jumped in all the time to give them good stock audio and tips for animating the Daleks. Little is known about the movie's background, so claiming something like copyright negligence without proof is speculation.