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Re:Star Trek Copyright Settlement Allows Fan Film to Proceed by AngryAnt on Saturday January 21, 2017 @03:08AM (#13449335)
"Though the suit was derided by some fans, The Hollywood Reporter noted that the studios were using it to signal that they would no longer tolerate professional-quality derivatives of its movies and television series."

I would be very interested in finding out how they intend to define "professional-quality". Particularly these days.

Would you not quickly end up needing to "sabotage" your output in order to skirt the rules of such a definition, in what amounts to a strange new dogma format?

Re:Star Trek Copyright Settlement Allows Fan Film to Proceed by manwithaplan on Saturday January 21, 2017 @04:43AM (#13449518)
> I would be very interested in finding out how they intend to define "professional-quality"

They tried to: http://www.startrek.com/fan-films

Re:Star Trek Copyright Settlement Allows Fan Film to Proceed by AngryAnt on Saturday January 21, 2017 @07:51PM (#13452967)
Thanks! It seems that the key here is "creators, actors and all other participants must be amateurs".

So can you ever ship two Star Trek fan productions? Or does the first production render you sufficiently experienced to no longer qualify as an amateur? ;)