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::[[Bill Baggs|Bill]]'s previous videos have taken actors from ''Doctor Who'' and used them for his own devices in The Stranger series, and more recently in ''The Airzone Solution''. "All the films up to now have been like ''Doctor Who'', but they've been actors, not characters from the programme. This is the first time we've actually got permission from the BBC to use a character from the show. I telephoned [[BBC Enterprises] with the idea of trying to get permission to use the [[Liz Shaw]] character. I wasn't sure who actually owned the rights, but we went ahead with using [[Caroline John|Caroline]] anyway, playing a similar character called Abbott. The Friday before we started filming I got a fax through saying we could use the character as long as the BBC got an acknowledgement at the end. They didn't even charge me for it!" | ::[[Bill Baggs|Bill]]'s previous videos have taken actors from ''Doctor Who'' and used them for his own devices in The Stranger series, and more recently in ''The Airzone Solution''. "All the films up to now have been like ''Doctor Who'', but they've been actors, not characters from the programme. This is the first time we've actually got permission from the BBC to use a character from the show. I telephoned [[BBC Enterprises] with the idea of trying to get permission to use the [[Liz Shaw]] character. I wasn't sure who actually owned the rights, but we went ahead with using [[Caroline John|Caroline]] anyway, playing a similar character called Abbott. The Friday before we started filming I got a fax through saying we could use the character as long as the BBC got an acknowledgement at the end. They didn't even charge me for it!" | ||
:So there we go. Pretty comprehensive statement of the legal picture. P.R.O.B.E. is therefore something we definitely cover. {{user:CzechOut/Sig}} <span style="{{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}}">18:08: Thu 19 Jan 2012 </span> | :So there we go. Pretty comprehensive statement of the legal picture. P.R.O.B.E. is therefore something we definitely cover. {{user:CzechOut/Sig}} <span style="{{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}}">18:08: Thu 19 Jan 2012 </span> | ||
::''[[The Killing Stone]]'' is harder to definitively prove anything about. [[DWM 324]], which contains a pretty damning review, doesn't shed much light on the legal picture. Now, I've heard/got the story itself, but I've long since lost the case and the second disc, on which there was an interview with Richard Franklin. It's been about ten years since I've heard it, though, and I honestly don't remember how much he talks about the precise situation with ''The Killing Stone''. But that would be a source of possible info. I think all that might tell us, though, is that he pitched the story to BBC Books and they rejected it, so that's why he's doing the audio version. I've done a bit of a web search, but so far I've not been able to come up with anything solid. | |||
::I propose that we delete this one, though, and bringing it back only when there's incontrovertible proof that it had the BBC's blessing. It just seems so unlikely that BBV got permission to use SJS, the Fourth Doctor, the Brig, Benton, the Master ''and'' Yates. If they ''could'' do it in this instance, why couldn't they in the past? Surely it was their goal all along to tell stories with the Doctor? I just have a very hard time believing this was in any way authorised. | |||
::And the thing is, the story is ''huge''. The implications it has for our understanding of ''Planet of the Spiders'', the Delgado Master, the Doctor's relationship to the hierarchy of UNIT, the relationship of Yates and Benton — we'd have to alter several ''key'' pages to fully integrate the story into the wiki. And I'm just not prepared to do that unless I know for sure that the BBC approved of the story. | |||
::So let's just let this one be guilty until proven innocent, okay? {{user:CzechOut/Sig}} <span style="{{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}}">19:40: Thu 19 Jan 2012 </span> | |||
