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-<wrap lo>**COORDINATED CAMPAIGN** Axanar blogger Jonathan Lane hopes others follow his lead in writing CBS and Paramount officials urging changes to the fan film guidelines.</wrap>+<wrap lo>**COORDINATED CAMPAIGN** Axanar blogger Jonathan Lane hopes others follow his lead in writing CBS and Paramount officials urging changes to the fan film guidelines. //(Photo: Jonathan Lane/Fan Film Factor blog)//</wrap>
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 ====== Axanar Supporters’ Report Critiques Fan Film Guidelines ====== ====== Axanar Supporters’ Report Critiques Fan Film Guidelines ======
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 +//**__ __**// <wrap lo>**By [[user>cpedraza|Carlos Pedraza]]**</wrap>
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 A group calling for a partial boycott of //Star Trek: Discovery// has submitted a report to CBS criticizing its [[cbs_guidelines|fan film guidelines]] and calling for the studio to make specific changes. A group calling for a partial boycott of //Star Trek: Discovery// has submitted a report to CBS criticizing its [[cbs_guidelines|fan film guidelines]] and calling for the studio to make specific changes.
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-Though described as a focus group report. the document is more accurately a summation of a variety of surveys conducted on the Facebook page of [[face>groups/smallaccess/|Project Small Access]], a group led by active Axanar supporters.+Though described as a focus group report, the document is more accurately a summation of a variety of surveys conducted on the Facebook page of [[face>groups/smallaccess/|Project Small Access]], a group led by active Axanar supporters.
  
 The report states its results came from the responses of 1,200 self-selected Star Trek fans. Among its findings: The report states its results came from the responses of 1,200 self-selected Star Trek fans. Among its findings:
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   * **Prohibiting** film industry professionals — particularly those who had previously worked on an official Star Trek production — from participating in a fan production, claiming the restriction is unenforceable under California law.   * **Prohibiting** film industry professionals — particularly those who had previously worked on an official Star Trek production — from participating in a fan production, claiming the restriction is unenforceable under California law.
   * **Limiting** crowdfunding to only $50,000 per 15-minute episode (up to maximum of two episodes), instead asking for a $150,000 limit.   * **Limiting** crowdfunding to only $50,000 per 15-minute episode (up to maximum of two episodes), instead asking for a $150,000 limit.
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-<wrap lo>This section, **Examining Each Guideline**, includes opinion and analysis, labeled as such.</wrap>+<wrap lo>This section, **Examining Each Guideline**, includes opinion and analysis, labeled accordingly.</wrap>
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 ===== Examining Each Guideline ===== ===== Examining Each Guideline =====
  
-The collapsed headings below open to an examination of each guideline, the report's specific recommendations and **AxaMonitor**'s analysis of those recommendations.+//The collapsed headings below open to an examination of each guideline, the report's specific recommendations and **AxaMonitor**'s analysis of those recommendations.//
  
 --> Guideline 1: Run Time Limits, No Series# --> Guideline 1: Run Time Limits, No Series#
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 After initially assuming the purpose of this guideline was to force productions to purchase expensive uniforms, accessories and other items, rather than allowing fans to construct their own, Van Citters' explanation in the Engage podcast made the guideline more palatable to respondents. Even so, the report recommended this revision: \\ \\ After initially assuming the purpose of this guideline was to force productions to purchase expensive uniforms, accessories and other items, rather than allowing fans to construct their own, Van Citters' explanation in the Engage podcast made the guideline more palatable to respondents. Even so, the report recommended this revision: \\ \\
 > <wrap lo>A fan production is welcome to create their own Star Trek uniforms, accessories, and props from scratch and even pay to have these items custom made. However, if such items are purchased from a commercial manufacturer or seller, such items must be official merchandise and not bootleg items or imitations of such commercially available products.</wrap> \\ > <wrap lo>A fan production is welcome to create their own Star Trek uniforms, accessories, and props from scratch and even pay to have these items custom made. However, if such items are purchased from a commercial manufacturer or seller, such items must be official merchandise and not bootleg items or imitations of such commercially available products.</wrap> \\
-**ANALYSIS** While the report seems to indicate general acceptability of this guideline once it was [[guidelines-podcast#questions and answers|clarified]] by Van Citters, the proposed revision creates a potential problem by allowing productions to pay to have items custom made. Isn't paying someone to create such products when that person has no license the same thing as buying bootleg merchandise. While Van Citters' clarification allows production to construct their own items, it remains unclear how CBS would enforce this principle with its planned "no micromanagement" approach.+**ANALYSIS** While the report seems to indicate general acceptability of this guideline once it was [[guidelines-podcast#questions and answers|clarified]] by Van Citters, the proposed revision creates a potential problem by allowing productions to pay to have items custom made. Isn't paying someone to create such products when that person has no license the same thing as buying bootleg merchandise? While Van Citters' clarification allows production to construct their own items, it remains unclear how CBS would enforce this principle with its planned "no micromanagement" approach.
  
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 Respondents expressed near-universal acceptance of this guideline. Respondents expressed near-universal acceptance of this guideline.
  
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-=== What is Small Access' Connection to Axanar? ===+=== What is Its Connection to Axanar? ===
 [{{ :mike-bawden.jpg?nolink|Axanar official **Mike Bawden**}}] [{{ :mike-bawden.jpg?nolink|Axanar official **Mike Bawden**}}]
 <wrap lo>Officially, [[Axanar Productions]], which is being [[lawsuit|sued]] by CBS and Paramount for [[copyright infringement]] is not a backer or sponsor of Project Small Access, with organizer Jonathan Lane claiming "the Small Access campaign is completely independent from anything Axanar" — on the regular blog Lane writes on Axanar's website, which also hosts the downloadable PDF of the report. \\ \\ <wrap lo>Officially, [[Axanar Productions]], which is being [[lawsuit|sued]] by CBS and Paramount for [[copyright infringement]] is not a backer or sponsor of Project Small Access, with organizer Jonathan Lane claiming "the Small Access campaign is completely independent from anything Axanar" — on the regular blog Lane writes on Axanar's website, which also hosts the downloadable PDF of the report. \\ \\