I am also curious if the magazine is published in any other languages and for any other countries? Germany, France, China, Japan?
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Paul,
Since this is the case does that also mean that we cannot expect any coverage of Star Trek related fan films etc? Why does it have to be "official" only? I would think that if it was Trek related it should be fair game. Trek fan films and even fanzines in the past, have done a lot to keep Trek alive. You wouldn't even have a magazine to publish if it wasn't for the fans. I would think that reporting on all aspects of the world of Star Trek would be fair game.
Kevin
My guess is that since anything that is non licensed and/or unofficial CBS/Paramount doesn't make any royalties or anything from them and so they won't allow any mention of them in any of "their" publications.
The sad thing is that even indirectly the sales of many unofficial or non licensed books and even things like fan films are still helping to put money in their pockets by keeping the fans interested and keeping the franchise alive. Collectibles/guide books also help show fans and collectors what is out there helping sales of the various licensed collectibles, though usually only from the newer stuff, where they do make royalties off of them.
The sad thing is that even indirectly the sales of many unofficial or non licensed books and even things like fan films are still helping to put money in their pockets by keeping the fans interested and keeping the franchise alive. Collectibles/guide books also help show fans and collectors what is out there helping sales of the various licensed collectibles, though usually only from the newer stuff, where they do make royalties off of them.
It's probably a legal requirement that's part of Titan's contract to do this magazine in the first place.
This is a common meme, but I've never seen any evidence to back it up. I think the (with luck) millions of people who will see J.J. Abrams's film will have a much more significant impact on keeping the franchise alive than the couple thousand who download the fan films.
Couple "thousands"? I thought New Voyages had downloads in the "millions"? That seems significant to me!
Kevin
And if you could back up that "millions" claim with something more than "I thought," it might seem significant to the rest of us.
The magazine has certainly covered several of the ST fan films, IIRC. So, too, did "Star Trek Communicator" cover "Starship Exeter".
But they are "not for profit".
startrekfiero's book is non-licensed and is intended to make profit for a publisher which does not hold the ST licence, hence a licensed ST mag can't cover it.
Bantam Books, when it had the ST licence, covered fanzines in "Star Trek Lives!"
I love it when all the arguments are carrying on when I'm asleep and the point I was about to make is made for me!
Fan films are covered - or at least, they were when no new Star Trek was in production. With the movie now nearly with us, it's a simple space issue. We've covered New Voyages and there's a news story in the issue just gone to press about Jon Povill's involvement in Phase II. It's down to the various fan film people to let us know about their projects, and Phase II has good publicists so we're usually in the loop.
As I said earlier, the question of covering non-licensed books is not open to debate - you may very well think that the reason was quoted above by KRAD, but I couldn't possibly comment!
Paul
I don't think even Phase II/New Voyages' publicists claim "millions"!
startrekfiero, your post I was referring to did discuss the goings on about the magazine in PR, but you couldn't help adding in plugging your book and doing a signing. I think we all know by now that you have a book out and will do the book signing tours and the rest of the publicist's stuff. I just feel it's too much plugging, especially when similar posts pop up in half a dozen threads. But you're right, I'm being overly fuddy about it, so I'll drop it.
Paul, I was thinking about the Tyco r-c ships, Fortune Fashion t-shirts, Dreamlink's USB accessories, IGPC's stamps and anywhere who does uniforms. Did you just know that these people had been granted the licences or was there anything else that you just didn't have room for?
Paul, I was thinking about the Tyco r-c ships, Fortune Fashion t-shirts, Dreamlink's USB accessories, IGPC's stamps and anywhere who does uniforms. Did you just know that these people had been granted the licences or was there anything else that you just didn't have room for?
PaulSimpson: My pleasure!
Paramount Pictures used to include a list of official licensees in the media kits made available for each ST movie. I assume CBS Consumer Products does the same.
Paramount Pictures used to include a list of official licensees in the media kits made available for each ST movie. I assume CBS Consumer Products does the same.
Nope, that was it. Anything else we'd have run would have been from snurching round the internet ourselves - as far as I'm aware these are new licenses and their distribution will be announced as and when... That's where sites like this one can score over a print mag, just because of the lack of lead time. Equally, I'm sure our avid advertising team will be poring over release details and there'll be advertising in the mag as and when...
And before anyone says "that doesn't help the UK readers" line, there aren't that many licensors who don't distribute worldwide! (and those that can't are normally copyright related, like the comics DVD)
Paul
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