User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-88790-20121208143712/@comment-188432-20121220140542

Revanvolatrelundar wrote: Senor 105 also appears in a short story in Obverse's first Iris anthology, and also has a cameo in the latest series of Iris Wildthyme audios. I do recall Schell and Stuart Douglas mentioning on GallifreyBase that they had the blessing of Paul Leonard in using "his" Venus for the book. The way I see it, Senor 105 is set within the Iris universe, which is also set within the larger DWU. But whether this is a spin off too far for us is another question, and one I need to think about where I stand. Well, yah. That's the thing, really. We do have to run to ground a better source than GallifreyBase or Blair's insistnece on our talk pages. It's not that we don't believe him; it's that such "evidence" would set a horrible precedence if we were to allow it. And Blair's only offered that we contact other individuals in the chain.

And I'm not real comfortable with that. I prefer it simple — an interview in DWM, a quote by Paul Leonard in a press release, something more substantial than a personal e-mail or a message at a forum. I mean, I don't think an e-mail to, say, Obverse would be of much help, because my guess is that they'd just forward it to Cody and we'd be back to where we were: Cody telling us that of course his own creation is legally using elements from another author.