User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-6032121-20200517150418/@comment-45692830-20200520215524

Obviously he does not have to sign off on any DW related release. I could release something right now and he wouldn't have to sign off on it. He does if it's going to be licensed etc etc. But this sort of ignores what was actually said.

the person who brought the first part of this trilogy, 'The Shadow Pases' to you was Chris Chibnall, who's responsible for all the official Who content designed to help people in lockdown.

Emphasis mine. (I already explained why I think the correct reading of this is that Chibnall is involved in everything, just Shadow more than the rest.)

So the fact that he's outright responsible for all of this is what's making this question so difficult to answer. And it forces us either to think that there's continuity between the Cook produced stuff and the non Cook stuff, or instead that the Cook stuff isn't officially licensed.