Star Trek: First Frontier on Kickstarter

Did anyone notice that the credits at the end say "Nichelle Nichols as Nyota Uhura"? Wonder how that's going to be? Is she narrating from the future and retelling the first Enterprise mission?

 

Well, it was her voice doing the trailing narration.

For me, using STII:TWoK music for this era is jarring. And forget Paramount; ASCAP may take issue and due a DCMA in short order based on using James Horner's themes to the degree they do if this continues through the finished feature.

ASCAP is way scarier than Paramount (or CBS) here.

 

I have yet to see any fanfilm taken down for music Copyrights and most of them violate that. So I'd be surprised if this was.

 

I am going to download it the same day this comes out as I don't think CBS will allow it to remain on YouTube for very long. I hope I am wrong.

 

I doubt CBS would file a complaint. The studio made its point with Axanar on the "arms race" crowdfunding and they've yet to retroactively remove previous fan films, such as New Voyages, Exeter, etc.

 

Same day? I don't see it getting past same hour. Viewers may not even make it past the opening credits before it gets yanked.

 

While I agree on this, could it be placeholder music, and there could be an original score for the film?

Either that, or they might use music from the two TOS pilots, plus maybe season 1 of TOS?

I really want to see this one see the light of day.

 

Buuuut... today is 3/20/19 and I do not know where I can watch the film... Does someone know something?

 

I'm going to keep a positive attitude the final corrections work out for this film.

 

You can't use recorded music without licensing it from the owner of the recording.

You can't re-record someone's composition without licensing it from the publisher first. ASCAP collects royalties from the sync rights and splits 50/50 between writer and publisher.

Though music written specifically for a movie earlier might have been a work for hire and it would depend on the contract between Horner and Paramount.

But they can't legally use other people's music without permission and paying. Fair is fair.

- proud member of ASCAP as both composer and publisher

 

You're right, of course, but no one seems to issue takedowns on the endless fan videos and fanfilms featuring unlicensed music, which surprises me.

 

There are recent comments on this youtube video that imply that everything is still moving forward and completed.



The video is 20 days old or so, but there are comments as recent as 2 days ago.

 

There are responses in the comments from Scott Lyttle, and the interview is with him - I'm assuming thats one of the producers. I haven't watched the video. I don't want to know anything until its real and I'm clicking play on the whole episode.

 

Haven't heard a thing. And their FB page doesn't have anything new.