Board Thread:Inclusion debates/@comment-1678571-20191107180006/@comment-5918438-20200625010404

Hearing no dissent, I'm deferring to precedent. As established, this was licensed (for the use of the Cybermen, the ArcHivists, and all BBC-owned Doctor Who elements which are incorporated).

There is a narrative framing device which is similar to that given in AUDIO: The Dalek Conquests and PROSE: A Brief History of Time Lords, which explains how it was this historical narrative was written in-universe (and who wrote it, Hegelia, an established DWU character via Killing Ground), and gives a fictional context to the recording itself. There's even a narrative involved with the playback, or at least the tape — similar in kind, though not scale, to AUDIO: Tropical Beach Sounds and Other Relaxing Seascapes 4 — with a "mysterious intruder" invoked in writing (packaged with the story) as having disrupted and entangled the end of the second tape, The Early Cybermen.

So long as those two examples, and those like them, remain valid, there's no reason to treat The ArcHive Tapes any differently. This can be revisited if ever we reconsider stories like The Dalek Conquests or A Brief History of Time Lords. Ruled valid.