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 ====== CBS Licenses Star Trek Fan Film Academy ====== ====== CBS Licenses Star Trek Fan Film Academy ======
  
-//New Voyages' James Cawley Offers Fans a Filmmaking Experience with Trek Professionals//+//New Voyages' James Cawley Offers Fans a Filmmaking Experience Alongside Trek Professionals//
  
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-LAS VEGAS — In an unprecedented move, CBS has granted a license to //Star Trek New Voyages// leader James Cawley to produce fan films through a new Star Trek Film Academy.+LAS VEGAS — In an unprecedented move, CBS has granted a license to //Star Trek New Voyages// producer James Cawley to make fan films through a new Star Trek Film Academy. 
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 "Learn the art of Star Trek filmmaking from those who made it," Cawley said about the effort which, unlike productions made under the fan film [[CBS guidelines|guidelines]], will be able to employ people who have previously worked on Star Trek professionally. "Learn the art of Star Trek filmmaking from those who made it," Cawley said about the effort which, unlike productions made under the fan film [[CBS guidelines|guidelines]], will be able to employ people who have previously worked on Star Trek professionally.
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 +[{{ ::jamescawley-img_2248.jpg?nolink|**SET TOUR** New Voyages' James Cawley on his reconstructed TOS sets with some of his Trek costume collection.}}]
  
 ===== CBS License ===== ===== CBS License =====
  
 Cawley made the announcement at the Star Trek Las Vegas Convention on Saturday, August 6, 2017, at the end of his panel discussing his year-old [[https://www.startrektour.com|Star Trek: The Original Series Set Tour]] in Ticonderoga, N.Y., also a fan-led effort licensed by CBS Consumer Products. Cawley made the announcement at the Star Trek Las Vegas Convention on Saturday, August 6, 2017, at the end of his panel discussing his year-old [[https://www.startrektour.com|Star Trek: The Original Series Set Tour]] in Ticonderoga, N.Y., also a fan-led effort licensed by CBS Consumer Products.
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 The film academy offers fans the chance to participate in all aspects of filmmaking, Cawley said, "from gaffing to costuming to special effects. Fans will work side by side with talented Star Trek artists to create short vignettes from beginning to end." The film academy offers fans the chance to participate in all aspects of filmmaking, Cawley said, "from gaffing to costuming to special effects. Fans will work side by side with talented Star Trek artists to create short vignettes from beginning to end."
  
 Cawley was joined on stage by Trek professionals Doug Drexler, Denise Okuda, Mike Okuda and Daren Dochterman at Star Trek Las Vegas. Cawley was joined on stage by Trek professionals Doug Drexler, Denise Okuda, Mike Okuda and Daren Dochterman at Star Trek Las Vegas.
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 The announcement follows more than a year and a half of rancor over fan productions sparked by a [[copyright infringement]] [[lawsuit]] against [[Alec Peters]] and his [[Axanar Productions]]. The announcement follows more than a year and a half of rancor over fan productions sparked by a [[copyright infringement]] [[lawsuit]] against [[Alec Peters]] and his [[Axanar Productions]].
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 Peters raised $1.7 million, largely from Trek fans' donations, on the promise of making //Axanar//, what he described as a "fully professional independent Star Trek production." Peters raised $1.7 million, largely from Trek fans' donations, on the promise of making //Axanar//, what he described as a "fully professional independent Star Trek production."
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 Those words, along with revenue streams such as an online [[merchandise]] store rang alarm bells for Star Trek's owners, [[CBS]] and [[Paramount Pictures]]. Those words, along with revenue streams such as an online [[merchandise]] store rang alarm bells for Star Trek's owners, [[CBS]] and [[Paramount Pictures]].
  
-Despite a public warning two years before about earning revenue off the studios' intellectual property, Peters forged ahead with his fundraising for the //Axanar// feature and his plans to build his own studio with fans' money.+Despite a public warning in 2015 about earning revenue off the studios' intellectual property, Peters forged ahead with his fundraising for the //Axanar// feature and his plans to build his own studio with fans' money.
  
 === Aftermath === === Aftermath ===
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 > The STAR TREK FAN FILM ACADEMY is a great idea...just another example of how the fallout from the @Axanarfilm case benefitted all fandom.(([[twit>burnettrm/status/893900475761696768|Robert Meyer Burnett tweet]], 8/5/17.)) > The STAR TREK FAN FILM ACADEMY is a great idea...just another example of how the fallout from the @Axanarfilm case benefitted all fandom.(([[twit>burnettrm/status/893900475761696768|Robert Meyer Burnett tweet]], 8/5/17.))
  
-Peters' girlfriend Crysstal Hubbard, appeared to refer to the announcement, posting on Facebook:+Peters' girlfriend, Crysstal Hubbard, appeared to refer to the announcement, posting on Facebook:
  
 > Oh I laughed so hard this morning!!!! #qualityoverquantity People so proud of  being copycats. No original ideas out there anymore I swear.(([[face>crysstal.hubbard/posts/10154851672331732|Crysstal Hubbard Facebook post]] and comment thread, 8/5/17.)) > Oh I laughed so hard this morning!!!! #qualityoverquantity People so proud of  being copycats. No original ideas out there anymore I swear.(([[face>crysstal.hubbard/posts/10154851672331732|Crysstal Hubbard Facebook post]] and comment thread, 8/5/17.))