Been off line for a few days, sorry for the long response.
That sounds like precisely what happened. Granted, we're guessing a bit blind, but I think even looking at the way Alec Peters is behaving is evidence enough, at least, that he's purposely poking the bear to get this kind of reaction.
So Peters was ripping off the IP of
The Producers, too!
(Instead of making something so bad it gets shut down on opening night and you pocket the money, you make something infringes so bad it gets shut down and you pocket the money.)
Hell if he just didn't say how much he got could pocketed a lot of money.
Thanks! At this point I'm just hoping to get to finish Mudd in Your I.
I think one could make a fine short film in 15 minutes with some interesting characterization and events, but if Star Trek had been a single 15 minute short that aired in 1966 it's a little hard to imagine that we would be having this conversation today. What made Star Trek memorable was its characters in all their strengths, weaknesses, idiosyncrasies and backstories, and characters like that take time to establish. And to further the thought, imagine creating a great character like Spock, and then having him only appear once in a 15 minute short, ever, with no chance of any further adventures or stories with him. Seems like kind of a waste.
I hope they will give a grandfather period to let people finish what has been started, since so many people have invested so much, and that is not just because I have a line or two, Aurora and Yorktown are the two I really was looking forward to.
And to your point Trek had two pilots to get started ...
I don't see how Alec Peters or Robert Burnett are responsible for Paramount/CBS imposing all these restrictions. It's interesting, or not so interesting, to see Paramount directly stipulate that producing DVD bonus features makes one a constrained professional.
In my view prohibiting people who made the actual products from making their own non-profit material, especially by reprising their characters, is pretty awful and the only valid reason for copyright restrictions is to prohibit people from monetarily profiting from someone/thing else's concepts. Otherwise it's just prohibiting works that would promote and/or compete with your own products, the latter interpretation indicating a great deal of insecurity.
Okay, so the hour long series of Fan Films can't happen anymore. I get it. That is disappointing.
But come on, now we get Star Trek Anthology Fan Films. 2 part episodes adding up to a half hour each. This could be FUN! Like the early days of TV when some shows were only 15 minutes on the DuMont Network.
I'll miss STC and Phase 2, absolutely, but let's try to be excited about the possibilities.
I thought about that, but if I say you had the performer who was last month's Captain Jones now playing the Engineer Smith, would that not become an anthology series ?
What a fluff piece, my god, how much would Alec pay a person to kiss his arse like this... at 14 min Alec says that 95% of the world blames CBS….
I accept the 15-30 minutes limits and it creates a creative challenge, I understand the lack of letting folks have a series, but again outside of a few hundred, maybe a thousand these are not household names ...I can not imagine the ST NV and Farragut made money off of their open house/conventions.
As for CBS making money off of FF I could see them getting a few pennies in banner ads on a fan film page buried deep in the ether, but not millions. The value might come from marketing intelligence, hey folks really like this kind of story, or this time period is trending well now...
