Talk:Who Killed Kennedy epilogue (short story)

Rule 2 potential violation
I'm bringing this to the talk page as the forums are currently down. While I personally love the new version as its own thing as well as the fact it would make the contradictory accounts of the Kennedy assassination way easier to cover, I'm not sure it had any involvement from the BBC and would therefore fail rule 2. It features Dodo Chaplet and the Twelfth Doctor.

The new version (as well as the original) was released online by the New Zealand Doctor Who Fan Club and I can't find any mention of these characters being properly licensed, only a notice that "No attempt has been made to supersede the copyrights held by the BBC or any other persons or organisations". Thoughts anyone? --Borisashton ☎  00:25, November 9, 2020 (UTC)
 * Aah. That (non-)copyright notice is in fact pretty clear-cut evidence of a Rule 2 breach, I think. In the absence of such a statement we might have erred on the side of good faith (the New Zealand Doctor Who Fan Club isn't altogether devoid of connections in high places), but that clinches it.


 * However, this "epilogue" is clearly relevant to the licensed version of Who Killed Kennedy, and important to its documentation. I would say that while it should not remain a Tardis:Valid source, nor have its own page, it could probably be merged into Who Killed Kennedy (novel) as a detailed subsection of the BTS section. This could include a summary of what happens in this thing, an explanation of how and where it was written, and a discussion of the ways in which it relates to other accounts of the assassination of the DWU and/or to DWU works released after the original Who Killed Kennedy (e.g. St. Luke's).


 * Consequently I won't delete this page just yet, waiting the the work of porting over this information to be done. Once it has been completed this page shall be merged into Who Killed Kennedy (novel) properly and the redirect deleted. --Scrooge MacDuck ☎  00:32, November 9, 2020 (UTC)


 * I can probably transfer the information in the coming days if nobody else does. I completely agree that this is important to the documentation of WKK and there has been a bts section on Assassination of John F. Kennedy about it for a while now. Another thing to mention as more evidence of its importance is that I assume this is a licensed appearance of James Stevens as he was created by David Bishop for the original book. --Borisashton ☎  00:39, November 9, 2020 (UTC)


 * That is somewhat interesting, although even aside from the "all relevant copyright holders" stipulation of T:VS, the interestingness of that fact is diminished by the fact that this is a non-commercial release; ergo, it would probably not qualify as a "commercially-licensed" use of the James Stevens copyright either way, if we follow the current policy on why we don't cover apparently "fully-licensed" charity stories. --Scrooge MacDuck ☎  00:43, November 9, 2020 (UTC)