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On the other hand, this reeks of bad copyright management. And shows how badly large companies manage anything. The Law of Inertia applies here. And inertia, more than anything else, characterizes large companies.
The background of "Star Trek" is 50 years old this year, and should have been placed in the public domain decades ago. The original creators should continue to own only a right to be paid for the specific works they published, and not a general right to prohibit derived works.
Picard was a statist ass. Riker should have mutinied in the second episode.
Later series "leaders" were even worse.
It was such a successful series.
I just watched the entire "Come Not Between Dragons" due to finding myself hooked at the get-go.
What an awesome parody! That would have been one of the best original Star Treks if played by the original actors back in the 60s.
If I were CBS or Paramount, I would not stifle such great stuff. I would consider it a salute.
"As you know, we've already begun filming “The Requiem” so we cannot halt, suspend, or postpone production. Renegades, from the get go, was designed to be transformative... not derivative. Thus, with very minor changes to our script, we have eliminated all of the Star Trek references. The good news is that Renegades is now a completely original and ongoing series."
I'm actually okay with that. Affordable technology for making movies has advanced to the point that sci-fi fans who wish to produce their own content are better off striking out on their own, creating truly original content and hopefully using it as a springboard to more professional mainstream projects.
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.
- See more at: http://www.startrek.com/fan-films#sth...
Renegades will either have to dump all their actors who have SG licenses, or go rogue, to meet this one. This is particularly targeted at Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols, JG Hertzler and Gary Graham. There are others as well,but most of Renegades cast were professional actors, who do not appear to meet the requirement for "amateurs".
In the immortal words of Billy Ray Valentine, "the best way you hurt rich people is by turning them into poor people."
This is an old problem. Paramount changed the Star Trek Universe, granted that. Before this new series (2009) Paramount would not allow profic (professional fiction) that derived from fanfic (fan-created fiction) in which new romances exists. In the current product, Spock and Uhuru violate that stricture.
But so what?
You need to look at SHERLOCK HOLMES which is still controlled by the owners of the copyright. On the other hand, no one owns Shakespeare.
Property rights are important... to property... but what is and is not property is a metaphysical discussion that has never been resolved rationally. We need it. We do not have it. (yet).
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-n...
There are so many great Heinlein stories that haven't been converted to video and his fans probably exceed and include Star Trek fans as a subset. They don't even need the rights to a specific story, just use of the framework.
Fighting the IP owners of Trek is a losing proposition. They haven't shown much intelligence since NBC brilliantly cancelled ST in 1969.
I agree that fans should organize a boycott and follow the example of Winthorp and Valentine.
They might even join forces with someone from the industry to create new media content as an alternative.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/small...
It seeks to reduce CBS's projected take by encouraging people to form groups where one person subscribes to CBS and all watch ST new series. The theory is that it would reduce their revenue compared to everyone paying. Like buying one movie ticket at a drive in and bringing 5 people in the trunk.
http://www.startrek.com/fan-films