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I really do get loving something with a passion and wanting to show that love for it, and I can see some logic in thinking that brand name may get more eyeballs on your work if you want to show off your talent.īut, guys, this is only going to get worse and more tightly controlled as tech makes it easier for almost anyone to make professional looking productions. Look,as I said below, I know people who do fan films for Trek, Star Wars, Who, and others, and I think they do fine work, but I always question why they don’t do more original stuff instead. Or, you know, use the creativity you supposedly have to make something original. Let the fans make their projects and let them do likewise. Let CBS make JJTRek, and Paywall Trek and let it sink or swim on it’s own merits. If the fanfilm market is that insignificant it shouldn’t matter what they do. Oh, but CBS can’t get enough viewers to support that stuff to make a profit? Ok, then it isn’t a threat to them in the first place. HELLO?!? MCFLY?!? If Axanar (or Continues or NV, etc) is really that big and that popular, WHY ISN’T CBS AND PARAMOUNT MAKING THAT SORT OF MATERIAL THEMSELVES? Clearly there must be a market for it if it’s become big enough to be a threat. CBS feared they would lose money because no one would want their offerings. What’s really going on is that (and the guidelines and the interview with CBS’ licensing guy bear this out) that the projects were becoming too high-quality. No money invested by the studio, but they get paid.
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Charge a license fee and take a percentage off the gross. Protect your interests without chaining down people who are generally just trying to share their passion for Trek with one another.įor that matter, LET commercial projects be made. PAD Categories: 1 48 Comments Continue Reading You own the copyright and have the ability to tell any kind of story for however long you want. Create your own dámņëd characters and universe and do whatever the hëll you want. You want to make fan films about space adventures but you don’t like the Paramount decrees? Fine. The fact that they loosened up to the degree that they have should be something fan filmmakers should feel dámņëd grateful for. At one convention I attended, Paramount lawyers actually came into the dealer’s room and confiscated peoples’ fanzines from right off their tables. It was copyright infringement, plain and simple, and not to be allowed. When I was producing a “Star Trek” fanzine back in the 1970s, Paramount issued a decree: No one could write “Star Trek” fanfic.
So thanks mostly to the efforts of the “Axanar” people, the guys who raised a million bucks to produce a “Star Trek” based film which resulted in a lawsuit, Paramount has now issued specific guidelines for anyone who wants to make a Trek fan film.
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