User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Celestial Toyroom/@comment-188432-20150818220508/@comment-188432-20150824195808

User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Celestial Toyroom/@comment-188432-20150818220508/@comment-188432-20150824195808 Gallifrey102 wrote: If the BBC are organising this, does that make it licensed? Presumably, if they select a winning entry, and post it on-line, it's a valid story to feature on this wiki, regardless of continuity status? I was kinda hoping no one asked this question, because this event is meant to just be a bit of creative fun. It shouldn't matter to one's enjoyment of it whether this wiki finds it valid.

But.

The competition is a part of a larger BBC initiative to get kids to code and otherwise use the digital medium. Unlike previous competitions, where kids have written scripts, and then the BBC has produced those scripts, these scripts will not be produced by any part the BBC. They are being solicited and published as fan fiction. Additionally, the fine print on the competition is that the contributors will grant the BBC a non-exclusive license, without remuneration, to feature the stories wherever the BBC want.

Therefore, unless something changes by the time the winner is announced, T:NO FANFIC will still apply, inasmuch as this wiki is concerned. It's still amateur fiction, even if the franchise copyright holders are organising an event around it.

Put a simpler way: yes, these films will have the Twelfth Doctor in it, and we're meant to understand that it's the same Twelve that's played by Peter Capaldi. But they won't star Peter Capaldi. And no one is getting paid for them. So they're exactly the same as all those other videos on YouTube that people make in their spare time.