Are you "so glad?" And could a professional-level fan film not cost a million? What's the difference between asking my friends and I to pitch in and make a film for a thousand dollars, ten thousand, a hundred thousand even?
Star Trek: Axanar is one of the best fan-produced items out there at the moment. It certainly seems to be attracting serious attention from all remaining cast members, production crew, and of course, CBS.
Star Trek exists because of it's fans, starting with Lucille Ball, who leveraged the continuation of Star Trek (Original Series) with the sale of Desilu. To slap them across the face (more than Brannon/Bergman did during their sad tenure) is terrible marketing.
To be clear, CBS and Paramount own different portions of the franchise. Paramount is NOT suing over Axanar (as of yet). CBS has NO motive other than the money it hopes to make with it's on-demand service rolling out in a years' time with a new Star Trek series as it's hub. I applaud this. Hell, I would pay fifteen dollars a month for new Trek. So would a lo tof people... which sounds a lot like crowd-sourcing, only We, the crowd, get to CHOOSE our projects. And we vote with our wallets.
As evidenced by the fan surge for this film. If you truly are "glad" this gets shut down (it won't), then I submit you don't have much understanding og Trek, fandom, or our evolving collaborative society.
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Star Trek: Axanar is one of the best fan-produced items out there at the moment. It certainly seems to be attracting serious attention from all remaining cast members, production crew, and of course, CBS.
Star Trek exists because of it's fans, starting with Lucille Ball, who leveraged the continuation of Star Trek (Original Series) with the sale of Desilu. To slap them across the face (more than Brannon/Bergman did during their sad tenure) is terrible marketing.
To be clear, CBS and Paramount own different portions of the franchise. Paramount is NOT suing over Axanar (as of yet). CBS has NO motive other than the money it hopes to make with it's on-demand service rolling out in a years' time with a new Star Trek series as it's hub. I applaud this. Hell, I would pay fifteen dollars a month for new Trek. So would a lo tof people... which sounds a lot like crowd-sourcing, only We, the crowd, get to CHOOSE our projects. And we vote with our wallets.
As evidenced by the fan surge for this film. If you truly are "glad" this gets shut down (it won't), then I submit you don't have much understanding og Trek, fandom, or our evolving collaborative society.
Techdirt has not posted any stories submitted by Jonathan Kivett.
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