Tuesday, April 3, 2012

postheadericon Captain's Prerogative: CBS Suddenly Decides To Block Fan-Created Star Trek Show Despite Past Support

When you have the copyright to something

really

People, a cultural phenomenon, the rules tend to change slightly. The size of the fan base means trampling all rape cases is completely unreal, so many artists such as George Lucas often tolerate or even support the fan fiction. As creators and companies in this situation tend to choose where their rights, their actions are often contradictory (Lucasfilm has also hit a movie marathon organized fan). CBS, which owns the rights

Star Trek
franchise, is a company. Although I got in the creations of fans harmless before they have the merit of being generally very supportive of such projects, especially the 100% fan-made web series Star Trek New Voyages: Phase II. But, as always, the incoherence Steve R. leads us to the news that CBS has locked

Phase II
Production
an episode based on a long-lost, without using

Star Trek

a script used last fall for the cult television was introduced in 1960 after having been forgotten for years. Its author, science fiction writer Norman Spinrad, announced that he would become an episode of a popular web series, "Star Trek New Voyages: Phase II", with nonprofessional actors in classical roles of Captain James T. Kirk, M.. Spock and other crew of the starship Enterprise. But then intervened another player:. CBS, who said he had the script and blocked a planned production site that

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There are many details that are important to understand what happened. First,
Phase II

not a sloppy production, the program involved several former Star Trek (including Walter Koenig and Eugene creator Gene Roddenberry, the son) to both on and off camera, and the creators received an open and supportive relationship with CBS. They found the script challenged by Spinrad, the original writer (but not the holder of copyright), who had been selling online since the discovery of a copy of last year. CBS also had a brief dispute with Spinrad, which resulted in the elimination of the script (and an agreement not to comment further).



Spinrad and
Phase II creator James Cawley does not seem bothered, but if they were, not / can not say, Because of Spinrad Cawley agreed and because of their desire to remain on good terms with CBS. Meanwhile, fans (they were excited about the prospect of a long lost script) get nothing. So what exactly does CBS get here? Spinrad final comment on the dispute made vague references to its plans to license the script, but it remains unclear why not
Phase II happen anyway , particularly taking into account the past relied on. As people have pointed out, this is not even the first time
Phase II
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