RE: Fanfiction - ADVENTURE IS YOU
04-21-2012, 08:38 PM
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THE WINNING PITCH - NETWORK EDITION
EPISODE 5 deleted scene
BRITNEY: So what do you have for us today?
CONTESTANT: Well, first off, I am a huge fan of the show. I love how you let people really get their ideas out there.
LEROY: Yeah yeah give us the pitch.
CONTESTANT: Of course. Okay well, you all know how TV is a dying industry.
STEVE: I wouldn't say that at all.
CONTESTANT: Oh but, I mean, well, people are having a lot more options for their entertainment choices, but with recent crackdowns on intellectual property it's been harder to come up with truly successful narratives and characters.
STEVE: For you maybe.
BRITNEY: Oh Steve, let him at least get to his idea.
LEROY: Yeah get to the point.
CONTESTANT: Well, but this is a big part of the point.
STEVE: What is your show idea about?
CONTESTANT: Well it's so much more than just an idea, it's a whole series of characters and new means of marketing.
BRITNEY: Oh? Characters? Can you show us one?
CONTESTANT: Well, okay I have one that I've started on, but its really the technique that matters.
STEVE: Show us the character.
CONTESTANT: Alright...
[CONTESTANT reveals first slide]
CONTESTANT: This is The Nightbat!
[STEVE presses his buzzer]
STEVE: Wow. That is all I needed to see. This is terrible. You are terrible. How did you even get this far?
BRITNEY: Steve! How could you X him so soon? He hasn't even said anything about him yet!
STEVE: It is clearly a batman ripoff. We already have a crime-fighting bat themed superhero. I am not interested.
BRITNEY: It might not be!
CONTESTANT: Well, actually...
LEROY: Yeah, no I see it too. This has copyright infringement written all over it.
CONTESTANT: Well you see, its supposed to be like batman.
BRITNEY: What?
STEVE: I told you.
CONTESTANT: Well, it's clearly not batman. And it would be easy to adjust the character so that it doesn't violate any copyright laws. That's the point. People need characters that aren't so hindered by licensing restrictions. By pushing the Nightbat character, the actual batman market share will go down as people realize that they can work freely with a much more available character.
BRITNEY: Work freely? but Nightbat would be under the same restrictions as any other character.
CONTESTANT: No, no that's the point. The Nightbat wouldn't have any copyright associations. It would be legal for anyone to use the character however they want.
BRITNEY: But, how do you collect royalties? How do you protect Nightbat from abuse?
CONTESTANT: Well, thats...you don't. People fall in love with things they have access to, and things they can add to and work with themselves, but it's becoming too easy to find copyright infringement and stop it.
BRITNEY: So you're for character piracy? Leroy, do you have anything to say?
LEROY: Oh I'm staying out of this trainwreck.
[LEROY PRESSES HIS BUZZER]
CONTESTANT: but! But by advocating characters like The Nightbat you would be able to assure brand popularity in a soon to be niche market!
[BRITNEY PRESSES HER BUZZER]
BRITNEY: Not interested. Sorry.
EPISODE 5 deleted scene
BRITNEY: So what do you have for us today?
CONTESTANT: Well, first off, I am a huge fan of the show. I love how you let people really get their ideas out there.
LEROY: Yeah yeah give us the pitch.
CONTESTANT: Of course. Okay well, you all know how TV is a dying industry.
STEVE: I wouldn't say that at all.
CONTESTANT: Oh but, I mean, well, people are having a lot more options for their entertainment choices, but with recent crackdowns on intellectual property it's been harder to come up with truly successful narratives and characters.
STEVE: For you maybe.
BRITNEY: Oh Steve, let him at least get to his idea.
LEROY: Yeah get to the point.
CONTESTANT: Well, but this is a big part of the point.
STEVE: What is your show idea about?
CONTESTANT: Well it's so much more than just an idea, it's a whole series of characters and new means of marketing.
BRITNEY: Oh? Characters? Can you show us one?
CONTESTANT: Well, okay I have one that I've started on, but its really the technique that matters.
STEVE: Show us the character.
CONTESTANT: Alright...
[CONTESTANT reveals first slide]
CONTESTANT: This is The Nightbat!
[STEVE presses his buzzer]
STEVE: Wow. That is all I needed to see. This is terrible. You are terrible. How did you even get this far?
BRITNEY: Steve! How could you X him so soon? He hasn't even said anything about him yet!
STEVE: It is clearly a batman ripoff. We already have a crime-fighting bat themed superhero. I am not interested.
BRITNEY: It might not be!
CONTESTANT: Well, actually...
LEROY: Yeah, no I see it too. This has copyright infringement written all over it.
CONTESTANT: Well you see, its supposed to be like batman.
BRITNEY: What?
STEVE: I told you.
CONTESTANT: Well, it's clearly not batman. And it would be easy to adjust the character so that it doesn't violate any copyright laws. That's the point. People need characters that aren't so hindered by licensing restrictions. By pushing the Nightbat character, the actual batman market share will go down as people realize that they can work freely with a much more available character.
BRITNEY: Work freely? but Nightbat would be under the same restrictions as any other character.
CONTESTANT: No, no that's the point. The Nightbat wouldn't have any copyright associations. It would be legal for anyone to use the character however they want.
BRITNEY: But, how do you collect royalties? How do you protect Nightbat from abuse?
CONTESTANT: Well, thats...you don't. People fall in love with things they have access to, and things they can add to and work with themselves, but it's becoming too easy to find copyright infringement and stop it.
BRITNEY: So you're for character piracy? Leroy, do you have anything to say?
LEROY: Oh I'm staying out of this trainwreck.
[LEROY PRESSES HIS BUZZER]
CONTESTANT: but! But by advocating characters like The Nightbat you would be able to assure brand popularity in a soon to be niche market!
[BRITNEY PRESSES HER BUZZER]
BRITNEY: Not interested. Sorry.
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