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-====== Official Fan Film Guidelines ====== 
  
-CBS and Paramount Pictures revealed a set of guidelines on June 23, 2016, for fan films that would preclude the use of any professionals and the formats used by the major fan productions, including //Axanar//.+====== Official Star Trek Fan Film Guidelines ======
  
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 +<wrap lo>**FAN FILMS PRIMER** Learn all about CBS/Paramount's history with fan films and the dangerous legal territory upon which fans treaded until the studios released these guidelines » {{:axamonitor-ico.gif?nolink|}} [[primers#tab__fan_films|Fan Films Primer]]</wrap>
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 +<wrap lo>//See also: [[guidelines-podcast|CBS Official Explains Fan Film Guidelines]] and [[guidelines_aftermath|Guidelines Aftermath]] and [[trek_wars_guidelines|Star Wars Guidelines Comparisons]] and [[axanar_guidelines|Axanar Tries to Rally Fan Films to Its Proposed Guidelines]]//</wrap>
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 +CBS and Paramount Pictures [[http://www.startrek.com/article/star-trek-fan-film-guidelines-announced|revealed]] a set of guidelines on June 23, 2016, for fan films that would preclude the use of any professionals and the formats used by the major fan productions, including //Axanar//.
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 +The guidelines, described by many fans on the Internet as "draconian" were condemned by Axanar producer [[Alec Peters]] in a statement later that day:
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 +[{{ :alec_peters.jpg?nolink|Axanar producer **Alec Peters**}}]
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 +> I’m really disappointed that this set of guidelines represents the studios’ best efforts on behalf of fans. These guidelines appear to have been tailor-made to shut down all of the major fan productions and stifle fandom. In no way can that be seen as supportive or encouraging, which is very disheartening. \\ \\ While CBS and Paramount claim to want to encourage the passion of fans to produce “reasonable fan fiction”, the restrictions presented do just the opposite, willfully ignoring over forty years of fan works that helped buoy the Star Trek franchise through some very lean years and enthusiastically spread the magic of the franchise in more plentiful times. \\ \\ Around the franchise’s 50th anniversary, we would have hoped CBS and Paramount would have taken this opportunity to unite with Star Trek fans in celebration of their creativity, not seek to crush it.(([[https://www.buzzfeed.com/adambvary/new-star-trek-fan-film-guidelines|Alec Peters statement, "New “Star Trek” Fan Film Guidelines Appear To Take Aim At Several Productions," Buzzfeed]], 6/23/16.))
 ===== The Guidelines ===== ===== The Guidelines =====
  
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-CBS and Paramount Pictures are big believers in reasonable fan fiction and fan creativity, and, in particular, want amateur fan filmmakers to showcase their passion for Star Trek.  Therefore, CBS and Paramount Pictures will not object to, or take legal action against, Star Trek fan productions that are non-professional and amateur and meet the following guidelines.+{{::startrek-com.jpg|}} \\ 
 +**CBS AND PARAMOUNT** Pictures are big believers in reasonable fan fiction and fan creativity, and, in particular, want amateur fan filmmakers to showcase their passion for Star Trek.  Therefore, CBS and Paramount Pictures will not object to, or take legal action against, Star Trek fan productions that are non-professional and amateur and meet the following guidelines.
  
 **Guidelines for Avoiding Objections:** **Guidelines for Avoiding Objections:**
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 10. Fan productions cannot create or imply any association or endorsement by CBS or Paramount Pictures. 10. Fan productions cannot create or imply any association or endorsement by CBS or Paramount Pictures.
  
-CBS and Paramount Pictures reserve the right to revise, revoke and/or withdraw these guidelines at any time in their own discretion. These guidelines are not a license and do not constitute approval or authorization of any fan productions or a waiver of any rights that CBS or Paramount Pictures may have with respect to fan fiction created outside of these guidelines.+CBS and Paramount Pictures reserve the right to revise, revoke and/or withdraw these guidelines at any time in their own discretion. These guidelines are not a license and do not constitute approval or authorization of any fan productions or a waiver of any rights that CBS or Paramount Pictures may have with respect to fan fiction created outside of these guidelines. {{:axamonitor-ico.gif?nolink|}}
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