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You're taking little snippets of what I'm saying and not putting them altogether. Vienna might be the same character but the owners of the character have said the series is not set in the DWU, even though they have a perfect right to do so. By contrast, K9 is the same character and the owners of the character have publicly said so and the majority owners of the DWU have not protested this statement.

BBV videos are dealt with on a case-by-case basis on the wiki. Each of their situations is different. P.R.O.B.E. actually uses Liz Shaw by permission of the BBC. The Killing Stone did not use the characters of the Doctor, the Master, Mike Yates and others with any sort of permission whatsoever, and the BBC has recently stepped in to stop Richard Franklin continuing on with that storyline. Things like the Zygon and Sontaran stories make use of the copyrights emanating from the writers, but don't claim that it isn't the DWU, and the BBC hasn't objected.

At any rate, this thread is just about Bernice Summerfield. It's not a complete review of our valid sources policy, which has been debated at great length. If you have any more questions about Bernice Summerfield, please ask them.