User:SOTO/Forum Archive/Inclusion debates/@comment-1506468-20190827123101/@comment-43655755-20190912170340

User:SOTO/Forum Archive/Inclusion debates/@comment-1506468-20190827123101/@comment-43655755-20190912170340 That is correct. We don't cover Campaign. We also do not cover Paul Magrs' expanded bibliography, despite the author's open admission that everything he writes is set in the same universe. We don't even include Iris Wildthyme's pre-Who appearances. Why? Because even with authorial intent, only selected works are included here, and works which are further out from Doctor Who's umbrella are only listed as trivia/notes.

Authorial intent means nothing. Rights are what matter, and there has been a consistent misunderstanding of how they work.

Mr. Wylder is perfectly allowed to use the individual characters and concepts permitted to him. He is not allowed to then claim a story exists within a licensed universe because of this. Obverse Books did not give him the right to do this. He does not have the right to claim that these stories take place within the Doctor Who universe, the Faction Paradox universe, or any other set of rights from which he may have borrowed characters or settings.