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Amidst an ongoing copyright-infringement case between CBS, Paramount and the crowdfunded fan film "Star Trek: Axanar," the two media companies outlined several guidelines for any future Star Trek fan productions.
In an open letter to fans, CBS and Paramount wrote that they want to support and encourage fan creativity. The guidelines also state that the companies "will not object to, or take legal action against, Star Trek fan productions that are nonprofessional and amateur and meet the following guidelines."
Sounds like Justin Lin and J.J. Abrams didn't have enough clout to make the lawsuit "go away" after all...
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CBS and Paramount Issue New Guideline for Star Trek Fan Films
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Survives system reboot.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by kurenai.tsubasa on Friday June 24 2016, @05:42PM
The fan production must be less than 15 minutes for a single self-contained story, or no more than 2 segments, episodes or parts, not to exceed 30 minutes total, with no additional seasons, episodes, parts, sequels or remakes.
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The fan production must be a real “fan” production, i.e., creators, actors and all other participants must be amateurs, cannot be compensated for their services, and cannot be currently or previously employed on any Star Trek series, films, production of DVDs or with any of CBS or Paramount Pictures' licensees.
That's too bad. A lot of interesting stuff has come out lately. I guess Star Trek is now pretty much dead and over with barring some miracle.
Videos must not include profanity, nudity, obscenity, pornography, depictions of drugs, alcohol, tobacco, or any harmful or illegal activity, or any material that is offensive, fraudulent, defamatory, libelous, disparaging, sexually explicit, threatening, hateful, or any other inappropriate content.
Right. Those things are for the JJ-verse only.
(Score: 2) by dyingtolive on Friday June 24 2016, @05:50PM
At least Roddenberry isn't around to see it.
Don't blame me, I voted for moose wang!
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday June 24 2016, @06:07PM
Nor Spock.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday June 24 2016, @06:29PM
depictions of drugs, alcohol, tobacco
Um...canon Star Trek itself has depictions of alcohol every so often.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 3, Funny) by JeanCroix on Friday June 24 2016, @06:52PM
(Score: 2) by kazzie on Friday June 24 2016, @08:01PM
But TNG (by means of Scotty) established that all the alcoholic drinks in TOS were real alcohol. None of this "synthetic whisky" or "synthetic commanders" back then...
(Score: 3, Informative) by Zinho on Friday June 24 2016, @08:11PM
Lt. Worf agrees with you, an knows the code word [wikia.com] to get the real stuff from the replicator...
"Space Exploration is not endless circles in low earth orbit." -Buzz Aldrin
(Score: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Saturday June 25 2016, @03:53AM
Everybody knows that prune juice is a true warrior's drink!
(Score: 2) by kazzie on Saturday June 25 2016, @08:04AM
Yeah, drink lots of prune juice the night before a great battle, then you won't get brown trousers on the field of war!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 24 2016, @09:16PM
Nonsense. In addition to Romulan ale, there's that one episode where Scotty digs out an aged bottle of Scotch and proceeds to drink intergalactic invaders under the table.
You know, that one episode. The one with the Styrofoam dodecahedrons.
(Score: 2) by JeanCroix on Saturday June 25 2016, @02:17PM
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Saturday June 25 2016, @01:44PM
Romulan ale
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(Score: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Friday June 24 2016, @10:30PM
I see I forgot to use sarcasm tags.
(Score: 2) by JeanCroix on Saturday June 25 2016, @02:20PM
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Friday June 24 2016, @10:32PM
So much for Sex Trek: The Next Penetration.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 26 2016, @12:02AM
The Dildonians are Invading Uranus!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 25 2016, @12:56PM
so wars and spaceships shooting at each other is totally off then?