User blog comment:JWarrior89/Jack Sparrow vs Zorro (Campellverse)/@comment-72.35.120.155-20130905110213/@comment-72.35.120.155-20130907013721

Just because some thing is licensed to the franchise owners doesn't automatically elevate it to canon status. Their are hundred of works licensed by Paramount that are not counted as Star Trek Canon, same thing ( with different numbers and owners ).applies to Star Wars etc.

While being liscensed tends to be a legal matter, Canon tends to a creative or continuity matter. Think about reboots or adaptation. Every Batman movie/comic/tv show/game/book etc is an official licensed product of DC, well that or Copywright/tradmark infringement, but they do not share canon Batman Begins Batman and events are not canon to the Adam West tv show are not canon to the comics. That is to say they do not represent to the truth or events in each others continuity.

I'm thinking it might be usefull at this point for you to read up on what canon means in this sort of context.

That and you still haven't generated any sort of comment on the subject from the creators or owners ( of Pirates ). So I'm inclined to think one doesn't exist and that my orginal point about a lack of official canon heirarchy/stance is accurate.