Board Thread:Inclusion debates/@comment-28349479-20161216221639/@comment-27280472-20161217214248

SOTO wrote: You bring up some good points and some good quotes. You are correct that you're bringing up things not brought up before, and I apologise for assuming otherwise.

But the fact remains that, legally, if we are to consider the elements in Faction Paradox to be the same as the equivalent elements in the DWU, then they do not have all the relevant copyrights. Everything they borrowed, they gave new names, to make sure they're their own property, their own independent universe at least from a legal standpoint, even if narratively, the intention is for them to fit into the DWU--if we try to consider them DWU, they fail rule 2. I'm becoming really unsure whether you've actually read through this thread. It has explained how the "renamed" concepts are not, from an in-universe perspective, renamed, demonstrated how this is done by other series that are considered valid sources, and listed the many characters and concepts which are used under license with the exact same names. I have suggested that speculative connections between characters are not made, as is the case for other valid sources like Man with the Rosette and the Master, and The Mistress (The Choice) and Romana II.