User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-45314928-20200727170605/@comment-45314928-20200727202343

Just going to start this off by saying that I can see no way that this thread could be taken to be anything other than genuine, so I do not appreciate the comments of "I'm trying to assume good faith, but this certainly makes it hard" and "It's obvious what's going on here". Nor do I appreciate someone commenting three times only to say that this thread should be deleted. If you think it should be deleted there's no point whatsoever to comment on the subject, leave it alone and the admins will see to it.

Now, back to the discussion at hand.

Nobody has provided any evidence of an example similar to The Homeworld / Gallifrey - where a concept has literally been hijacked. The earlier comments about Bernice Summerfield and Irving Braxiatel are not the same as all their appearances have been licensed by their copyright holder and always intended to be the same characters.

I can only think of one other instance in Yssgaroth / Great Vampire, and these too should be separated in my opinion.

With both "The Homeworld" and "Yssgaroth", they were presented as alternative names for "Gallifrey" and "Great Vampires" and were likely sought out by the Faction Paradox team as an easy work-around (likely what LilPotato was meaning when they said that Lars Pearson had contacted Marc Platt for use of the title "The Homeworld"). But these are still not licensed appearances of the original concepts, and should be kept separate.

It would be just the same as someone gaining the license for the name "the Oncoming Storm" and creating a character around it, this character isn't suddenly licensed to be the Doctor.