BREAKING: Official Fan Film Guidelines Issued
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Nope.
Worry a little less. There's a thing called 'grandfathering' when it comes to rules like this. Stuff that already exists or is in CURRENT production will likely be fine ... but any NEW or UNPRODUCED material will have to follow these rules - or contact CBS/Paramount for a license or waiver.
I think Horizon was 5 figures and was done for less or around the same amount that Alec Peters paid himself in salary. That said, I felt that crowd funding was risky back when it started happening a few years back. I remember when the only thing that was supposedly allowed was sending gift cards to help with lumber etc. Things did start to ramp up with crowd funding, but CBS probably ignored it because nobody was paying themselves a wage, building studios, selling things in the guise of a perk etc. I think this would have happened eventually. It just happened to be Axanar that did it before anybody else.
he's involved in an original webseries now and thats where i see most of this going, and i'm sad for STC it was great, but we'll still see new Sci Fi and thats not a bad thing
No, they simply never liked that fan films existed at all. Hence the new guidelines.
Nope.
While certainly labors of love and quite enjoyable, no fan production has ever been at the level of something that can be commercially released to theaters internationally, in terms of writing, acting, technical aspects of production and post-production, etc., etc.
I really don't see what the problem would be, if it meets their "family friendly" guidelines. Having a strong message, without depicting profanity, sex, drugs, alcohol, smoking, etc., is most definitely within the letter of the law on this particular guideline.
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Sorry, what? With all due respect to the fan filmmakers, a number of whom are friends, most fan films are bad.My reference to Kraft was re his 6-figure budget follow-up movie, which he was told "don't".
Recast?
Says who? CBS/Paramount is not obliged to grandfather anyone.
"Will likely"..
It's a pain in the ass to go back to every single existing thing and make sure it follows the new rules. Oh, they COULD, of course, but there's no gain in it, realistically, unless someone starts selling compilation DVDs...
Boycott? You mean the buzzword that people use who think that not watching the show or the movies will have any meaningful effect on their production?
The props and costume thing looks to me like a "we had to say that" kind of thing, as it is in practicality unenforcible. Only the most extremely prop-minded among us (and thus no one in CBS legal) could look at a shot and ID a manufacturer (and that would have to be a extreme closeup!). CBS will not be able to watch a fanfilm and make a judgement of what prop was made by whom.
What, they're going to send prop and costume police to the set to check garment tags and inspect the prop table?
"If this is an Art Asylum phaser, where are the screw holes?"
"I filled them in and repainted, is there a law against that?"
As just one example, at least four different manufacturers have legally sold phasers through Lincoln Enterprises/Roddenberry.com over the years. There's just no way they're going to be able to police this one.
Continue to not act?
Yeah, I know Alec started this ball rolling, but he didn't write the rules. Paramount/CBS did. The blame should squarely be on their shoulders for the draconian response.
CBS is saying that if you don't deviate from these, they won't bug you.
They're not promising to pursue anyone who violates one or more of these to the ends of the Earth in every circumstance.
In future, however, when they feel it's necessary to snap someone back they need only point to these and explain "You broke rule #3, which we made entirely clear and published back in June of 2016."
They're not promising to pursue anyone who violates one or more of these to the ends of the Earth in every circumstance.
In future, however, when they feel it's necessary to snap someone back they need only point to these and explain "You broke rule #3, which we made entirely clear and published back in June of 2016."
Oooh. Burn! (Is that still what the cool kids say?)
