User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-45314928-20200727170605/@comment-45692830-20200727172148

This post is premised on a mistake. Great Houses is not separated from Time Lords because it refers to two distinct names for the same concept and you have to decide through interpretation if they're the same (similar to Timeship and TARDIS), rather, these are distinct concepts. For instance House Lolita or I.M. Foreman's Travelling Show.

The issue in question is not that the authors changed names to avoid copyright, but that they change names to better match the aesthetic of the world they're writing for, even if they have the rights for the names, which just so happens to also avoid copyright. As was explained to you at Talk:Auteur.

At best some of these are a Man with the Rosette situation, but that should be handled at the respective talk pages, Homeworld is certainly not.