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BREAKING: Official Fan Film Guidelines Issued
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Nope, that's it.
Is Dark Isolation going all-original? I thought they were just retooling with a new title and format, but I didn't have time to watch their entire 45-minute (!) announcement podcast, so I may have got that wrong.
oh that will end well, talking about tempting fate.'Starfleet Studios Raven', formally called 'Star Trek Raven', has decided not to follow some of CBS's new guidelines according to 1701 News.
The same thing could have been accomplished without making a public statement.
'Starfleet Studios Raven', formally called 'Star Trek Raven', has decided not to follow some of CBS's new guidelines according to 1701 News.
Here is the statement from StarTrekRaven.com:
'Starfleet Studios Raven', formally called 'Star Trek Raven', has decided not to follow some of CBS's new guidelines according to 1701 News.
Here is the statement from StarTrekRaven.com:
These kind of responses will be what ends fan films for everyone. CBS will figure that it isn't worth the headache.
From what I understood of that video they are going to produce one more Trek Isolation vignette which has already been filmed and are going to be involved some way in Starship Farragut’s final episode, ‘The Homecoming’. After that they are going to completely ‘reboot’ the series as ‘Dark Isolation’ with a brand new two part pilot episode with a whole new ship design and concept.
Well as this video shows, Raven has always had a healthy respect for CBS!
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Raven may just make Alec and RMB look somewhat civil and mature. "Whatever"? Are they a bunch of children?
This is my concern as well Billj and if there ends up being No or selective enforcement of the guidelines only a few of us will follow them.
what the F is wrong with these people, looking at their website and youTube account, I found it very hard to find any actual episodes, just some pics or short videos of younger women in Star Fleet uniforms, and admirals talking around desks.
given that their website makes more then clear they are aware of the rules, I dont know why they would not jump straight to C&D.
This kind of post, does make me worry (as mentioned above) that this kind of attitude is going to create alot of headaches and, alot of extra work for CBS/Paramount (for no reward) who will quickly just say no to all fan films
We posted our Lanclos episode shortly after the guidelines came out. I know the Exec made every effort to insure it was well within the new rules. Some of the removed posts almost seemed to express a serious disappointment that C/P didn't come by and remove it right away. It makes me wonder how much of it is people reading into the guidelines stuff that just isn't there and how many people really wish for true fan films to simply go away.
If anyone from CBS is looking on, here, I'd like to suggest that, if they feel the need to issue a C&D, they should simultaneously lodge a complaint with ICANN to dispute ownership of the domain that Raven is using. It pretty clearly contains their trademarked name Star Trek, being used for a purpose not protected by free speech rights. (By which I mean, I could presumably get StarTrekSucks.com to critique or complain about Star Trek - but I can't use it to create an alternate product, even a free one, using their trademark.)
(Again, I'm not a lawyer, advice is worth what you're paying me for it, yada yada. But, I *have* been involved in an ICANN domain dispute before....)
That causes me concern too
Exactly. This is an example of someone looking for attention. Had they just made their production without ever bringing up that they intended the flaunt the guidelines not one person (including CBS) would have said anything. But they wanted to stand out from the herd and get noticed. I hope CBS rewards them.
