yes I would have to agree, if I were to sell a reworked star trek or Babylon 5 model it would be preposterous for me to claim authentic authorship of it. but I were to make a self drawn model of say,... a planet X Anunaki scout, and it wasn't trek-like at all, I should be at least to be able to claim originality and authorship. I guess, if I were to want to do something of a render for a model to be promoted in someway, say with the Klingon above, I would put something like;
My thanks to Matt Jefferies and to Gene Roddenberry for the original design
of this model I am giving away for free in admiration of their TV show ST-TOS
since you cant really say star track and get away with it.
but then again with 22 million fan sites, hundreds of video games, thousands of renderings and art work, several hundred novels and fan art on the cover, and role playing games, is this not now community property, as long as paramount and whomever owns the right to STAR TRIX doesn't lose over 8 thousand dollars over the sales of the art work?
My thanks to Matt Jefferies and to Gene Roddenberry for the original design
of this model I am giving away for free in admiration of their TV show ST-TOS
since you cant really say star track and get away with it.
but then again with 22 million fan sites, hundreds of video games, thousands of renderings and art work, several hundred novels and fan art on the cover, and role playing games, is this not now community property, as long as paramount and whomever owns the right to STAR TRIX doesn't lose over 8 thousand dollars over the sales of the art work?