User:SOTO/Forum Archive/Inclusion debates/@comment-1506468-20190827123101/@comment-6032121-20190912195842

Unless memory fails, I think the Lego Batman thing wasn't so much that we didn't believe the creator's claims, as that the creator's claims were incomplete to begin with; someone claimed to have gotten rights for the Daleks "from the BBC", but as we all know, the BBC alone don't control the copyright to the Daleks. Moreover, the Daleks weren't named in the final cut of the film itself, and their design was "Legotized" to fit the film's artstyle, so whether we could even formally identify them as Daleks (be they licensed or otherwise) was called into question.

So Lego Batman was a very tricky situation (I think in an ideal world we should deem it valid, but I also think we should deem Dimensions in Time valid in such an ideal world; it's an opinion that is neither here nor there), but not one so very like this particular tricky situation.

Also, User:LegoK9 dug up a confirmation from Obverse Books that it is a proper crossover a few posts ago, so as a matter of fact we're not relying on just Arcbeatle's claims anymore, right over there.