Forum:When did Justin Richards find out that he didn't have the rights to the Daleks?

I know when the Sabbath storyline in the later EDAs was first created, he was supposed to be inadvertently working for the Daleks, but but Justin Richards couldn't get the rights, and had to invent a whole new background with the Council of Eight instead.

I'm curious when this happened. There are clues even in some of the later books about the Daleks, not to mention some obvious setups for a reworking of the classic Dalek stories into a universe without Time Lords. Were all of the books from Henrietta Street to Timeless written around the Dalek idea, and only Sometime Never… written for the Daleks, or did they know they had to change their plans earlier than that but decide to write (or at least leave in) hints about the Daleks anyway?

Also, I can't remember where and when the license story came out. (Was it on r.a.drwho, OG, or elsewhere?) If anyone remembers, that would make it easier to search the appropriate archives…

Thanks. --173.228.85.35 20:42, August 16, 2011 (UTC)