I keep meaning to say this – but I recall an issue from reading about the comics in Doctor Who Monthly about likeness rights; tv companions didn’t appear in the comic strips at first because the various comics/magazines didn’t have the rights to the faces of the actors involved (aside from Hartnell, Troughton, Pertwee etc). Thus any infidelity is plausible deniability on ownership of faces?
Or hack artists couldn’t draw.
It’s a twenty-year-old plus memory, so may be entirely wrong, of course.
I keep meaning to say this – but I recall an issue from reading about the comics in Doctor Who Monthly about likeness rights; tv companions didn’t appear in the comic strips at first because the various comics/magazines didn’t have the rights to the faces of the actors involved (aside from Hartnell, Troughton, Pertwee etc). Thus any infidelity is plausible deniability on ownership of faces?
Or hack artists couldn’t draw.
It’s a twenty-year-old plus memory, so may be entirely wrong, of course.