Commercial Real Person Fan Fiction (RPFs), crossovers and parodies as geeky imperatives (as of 2021)

As unlikely as it sounds, I think I reached the "right" conclusions at my previous attempt while having a somewhat misled deduction chain.

I was criticising the "professional" Hollywood/MPAA vs. the "amateur" YouTube-musicians/signed-artists/RIAA. I was contrasting amateurs which mean people who love their work; who do it for fun, often referred to as "geeks". They are not to be confused with "dorks" who are (for the context of this essay) people without social life, or who seem reckless, not confident, unattractive, etc. "amateur" now has pejorative meaning of something done non-skillfully but in the 19th century, it was a compliment.

These were contrasted to "professionalism" (= doing something only for money, regardless of how little or a lot: shitload of money).

I also contrasted "conformism" (= playing by the rules of "society", what other people expect you to do, following superior orders, doing what you feel you are obliged to do, etc.) to "hacking" (a.k.a "action heroism").

Hacking involves:

1. Thinking outside the box.

2. Being resourceful.

3. Finding creative solutions.

4. Bending or defying the "laws"/guidelines.

5. Not accepting your fate.

6. "David vs. Goliath" or "Indiana Jones' Gun vs. Swordmaster" scene as well as Samantha Smith (who didn't kill anyone) and my Summerschool at the NSA screenplay.

7. "Craziness" / Nev'ua. I suspect "lenabé" in Biblical times meant to "act crazy", to "drive crazy", "to be crazy", "to seek [divine] guidance", including in today's casual sense. It involved: "funny"ness, exaggeration, song-and-poetry, emulation, contradicting one self, intimidation and fear (which can be fun in a way) even blasphemy. Many MOTAS nevertheless found it sexy.

   Plato considered insanity as divine, and during his time, the good "stand-up philosophers" or nevi'im (and many similar phenomena in the near east), were often funny, or otherwise exciting, exalting, non "original" (borrowed and built upon the works of their peers and predecessors), often contradicted themselves, blasphemous or just seemingly "stupid", didn't take themselves seriously, and although held with some contempt were highly coveted by MOTAS.

   Jaynes hypothesised that the Nevi'im were Schizophrenic and hallucinated voices of "gods" (= "guidelines-generators") and who spoke in poems or rhymes. However now I think most of the later ones were only hypomanic (below-mania) at worst, often spoke in prose or in free form verse, and often not only emulated, built-upon, or mocked their predecessors or contemporaries, but topped them.

   And they were often accused of being "bullshit" artists, being blasphemous or stupid, and "contaminating the mind of the youth" and held in some contempt. Socrates, Galileo, Sarah Bernhardt, early film cartoons, television in the 1970s (Sesame Street/etc.), computer games in the 1980s, Role-playing games, Internet chat, supermodels, reality show contestants, independent YouTube cover/etc. artists. "There is nothing new under the sun."

   Just for the record, while I am enamoured with many YouTube cover artists, and whose songs comprise of most of what I listen to, my sister who is 5 years my junior and who has a Ph.D. in Computer Science (so she is intelligent and techsavvy), has a prejudice against them.

8. The biblical Samson was not an action hero, but a classical "I'm taking them all with me" / "may my soul perish with philistines" tragic hero, who worked hard (not smart!) and took many lives of (often innocent) people who cared about him.

9. That put aside, despite common belief, NASA astronauts did use pencils in space at first, just like their Soviet peers. However, this solution was found to be lacking. As a result, space-friendly pens were developed (within budget) and used (including by the Russian cosmonauts).

«"Those who make a distinction between education and entertainment don't know the first thing about either." - Marshall McLuhan » (possibly a misquatation). via fortune-mod

( Marshall McLuhan. )

I think before the Internet/social media were a thing, people did amateur philosophy / entertainment / education / art - with their peers, even if limited to sports / food / MOTAS.

( @shlomif (= me) tweet. )

I think I have learnt more from Internet forums (especially interactive, realtime chat, ones), than I did from Project Euler which I favourably compared to the Technion. I also attribute a lot of ideas and inspiration from them.

For more information, see:

1. Why "let's Remove net access to avoid distractions" is bad.

2. "The Machines That Can Give You Questions"

3. "I learned a lot from my teachers, and from my friends more than my teachers, and from my pupils the most."

4. xkcd: "11th Grade"

5. My comment about "The Student Bride" film which I find satirises and criticises contemporary American college student life by showing how ridiculous The Princess Bride will be when ported to it.

6. My English dramatically improved after I graduated from high school

Hollywood's blessed screenplay format is boring, finicky, and requires a lot of time to prepare. It only has one proprietary Windows-only program and one unmaintained, slow, non-responsive, open source program - Celtx, that can be used to edit it.

As a hacker/action hero I'd rather my screenplays never be filmed by Hollywood studios, than waste time preparing one in its blessed format. Furthermore, since it cannot be automatically linted or validated, one often needs to revise or amend it, which is even more time-consuming. Rinse and repeat.

One can imagine most young or young-at-heart screen writers who use code sharing sites and services (e.g: GitHub or GitLab), wikis, desktop or online word processors, etc. will also sport the same sentiments.

As Paul Graham notes in a different context: Hackers are lazy, in the same way that mathematicians and modernist architects are lazy: they hate anything extraneous.

So a lack of "original" screenplays and many unemployed screenplay readers is not surprising.

I suggest Hollywood studios to also accept screenplays either in a subset of XHTML5 (which will be capable of being validated using an open source, easy to install, and portable linter) , or an XML-based format, either a subset of TEI or a custom format. Perhaps any self-contained XHTML5/HTML5 page can be accepted, including ones on the public-facing web.

One can find many screenplays like that in Archive of our own, but there are likely many more.

Given many screenplays are reworked, or even improvised upon during filming, their formatting should not be too draconian and finicky, anyway.

Like it or not - most of the popular art in the 20th century was commercial and/or proprietary ( "All rights reserved" ) . While screenwriters often derive inspiration from older, and now public domain sources, the good ones also reuse characters or texts from real life (Real Person Fiction ( RPF )) or from newer franchises (out of being constructively lazy). And with copyright law being maximalised to covering individual characters, concepts, and worlds and individual sentences (but do note that it is highly likely that Ashleigh Brilliant is reformed by now), this makes legitimate and commercial reuse/remixing of drama a problem.

At one point, I walked past a booth that had lots of clas- sic Star Wars toys. My eyes fell on an original model of Darth Vader’s TIE Fighter. I had that toy when I was a kid, and just looking at it was like those car commercials where the guy touches the car and gets this rapid-fire burst of images until he takes his hand off of it. I saw myself riding in the car to Kmart with my parents, hoping to buy a new Star Wars toy, playing with the toys on the gold shag carpeting in front of the brick fireplace in the house in Sunland, running around the back yard in the fading evening light in the summer of 1980. I piloted my TIE fighter, chasing my brother who piloted a snow speeder. ( We weren’t afraid to combine Star Wars and He-Man, so why not combine Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back?)

People as young as children have been doing mashups and RPFs of franchises, individual books/stories/films/songs/etc., characters (both fictional and real), and more serious idea systems (see a partial list). E.g: when playing with dolls or action figures, like Wil Wheaton notes in his book "The Happiest Days of Our Lives".

There is no way one can expect them (or me) to use only earlier sources than 1900, because technology as well as art, culture, & entertainment / education / amateur philosophy, did not stand still since then, despite being increasingly based on Copyright maximalism.

You can never truly appreciate Hamlet until you've read it in the original Klingon.

But all the mightiest Klingon warriors have watched Disney's The Lion King instead (or in addition), possibly with Klingon subtitles.

( @shlomif (= me) tweet )

In my screenplay Selina Mandrake - The Slayer, the protagonist (Selina) runs into three vampire warriors (“The Three”) dressed as Klingons, who tell her that “Every mighty Klingon warrior has watched Sesame Street” to which she exclaims: “Mighty Klingon vampire warriors who have watched Sesame Street… this decade royally sucks!!”. However, most of the best American warriors of the relatively recent past (of all kinds) have watched Sesame Street, because they loved it as happy children (and later as adults).

( Shlomi Fish (= me): "Hackers make the best warriors" )

If we take my Sesame Street Hosting Harry Potter fan fiction as an example, then it mashes together the real world J. K. Rowling, her franchise's characters: Harry Potter, Hermione, and Dumbledore; the Muppets' characters: The Amazing Mumford, Cookie Monster, and Miss Piggy; various circa 2014 trends (e.g: Sushi, and the model Candice Swanepoel, who was mentioned there because she topped Maxim's Hot 100 that year); and as icing on the cake it closes with a hack of the Beatles song "All you need is love" titled "Do it all with love"

While it also sports a parody of "The miller, his son and the donkey" fable, the donkey there is the one from the Shrek franchise as originally voiced by Eddie Murphy.

These are all building blocks of my creative spiritual world. Any screenwriter who can successfully mutate the screenplay (and they have my blessing and legal permission to do so) must use recent enough characters and quotes. To quote Groucho Marx I don’t care to belong to any club that will have me as a member. The Muppets franchise did such crossovers and RPF since the 1970s (e.g. "Sam the Eagle versus Alice Cooper") and most of The Muppets Show's early (and later) skits are amazingly fresh and funny even today.

As much I like Charlie Chaplin he will be a poor substitute to Chuck Norris in my muppets' "Summer Glau & Chuck Norris as Grammar Nazis" fanfic episode despite the fact that he was also Hollywood's "alpha male" at the time.

Anyway, I believe most hobbyist screenwriters either approve of other people taking their works in their own direction ( "If they don't like it, tell them they can go and remake it". ), or lack the time and energy (even if they have enough money) to start a long litigation process.

Good hackers are constructively lazy, and build on the work of others. And that means doing crossovers, parodies, and real person fiction.

As I noted elsewhere increasingly most attractive guys and girls are geeky (= "amateur"; doing what they do because they enjoy it) as well as very action heroic and hackery (resourceful, bending the rules, defying their fate).

While there are many big name actors and actresses, and studios will gladly have them star in their films, they will refuse to act (even for an obscene amount of money) in any films whose screenplays were not written by honest, optimistic, and idealistic screenwriters such as me, which are increasingly not written in the draconian format, and increasingly feature crossovers / mashups / real person fiction / parodies of relatively recent franchises. ( Even if they do not have a conscious policy against starring in pessimistic screenplays, they will be so poorly written or depressing or boring, that they will "subconsciously" avoid them. )

Emma Watson being unhirable as an actress in Hollywood started as a joke youtube comment I wrote, which materialised after the film Little Women (2019). Although loved by professional critics, geeky fans like me thought that the 1994 Winona Rider adaptation was still pertinent today, and that Watson was underutilised.

She has not accepted a "major motion picture" role since, possibly because she'd rather play at parody plays, frequent Conventions ("cons"), play in indie films, get paid for modelling, be an activist, acquire new skills, or just relax, than get paid to star in a poorly written and professional (and likely dystopian or pessimistic) Hollywood remake or original film. Lend me Emma Watson and Jennifer Lawrence and I'll return both with Natalie Portman as interest! Whether or not Portman is going to accept being cast as Thor(ah) that will be the last the territorially franchised film the film industry will see of her.

(For reference, see this teaser for "Queen Padmé Tales" sporting Portman, and Queen Padmé Tales itself.)

• "When I was your age, @EmmaWatson was called Sarah Bernhardt."

• "Dude! How old are you?"

It's funny to think that Em is the canonical "Alpha Female" now, but Bernhardt being the daughter of a (Jewish) prostitute, whose father's identity was unclear, was far more questionable. And where there's a will there's a way.

( @shlomif (= me) tweet )

One thing I got wrong is thinking a geek will refuse to get paid. That is wrong because often, geeks are offered large amounts of money or at least token pay (see the Emma Watson as a software dev thought experiment). For example, Linus Torvalds a software developer, action hero, geek, and a remarkable amateur philosopher / entertainer, is believed to get paid 20 million USD/year. While he will gladly continue to comaintain the Linux kernel project for less, it is commonly accepted that it is a reasonable salary.

I also suspect the belief that make-up makes a woman look better is largely a "Stone Soup" effect / placebo effect catalyst for feeling confident, competent, and happy, and being honest and benevolent.

All this has jinxed the reality T.V. show "Beauty and the Geek" and now large budget Hollywood feature films.

I was told that every waitress at a restaurant in LA is a potential Hollywood actress. But most of the good looking ones are increasingly geeky hackers as well.

Many people will pay to see a film starring well-known and well-regarded actors and actresses which they happen to like, and approve of its trailer, which they can watch on YouTube. But given most of the screenwriters (including older and/or experienced one who met enough Earth Angels who enlightened them - either offline or online), are now great hackers and geeks, they won't bother writing their screenplays in the Hollywood blessed format and increasingly do parodies, crossovers and RPFs.

I never met a monster I didn't like.

( Vincent Price on The Muppet Show )

Even though I tried to find truly malevolent people per Neo-Tech and some possible interpretations of Israeli-taught Tanakh Judaism, I was unable to run into a truly evil person. Even historical mass-murderers (e.g: Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Genghis Khan, Attila the Hun, Alexander of Macedonia, even Nebuchadnezzar) provided some redeeming actions or wisdom. See for instance "Top 10 reasons why Darth Vader was an amazing project manager" with an easy (but tabooed) "Darth Vader"⇒"Nazi Germany's leadership" substitution.

Since I have at least subconsciously (and lately consciously) believed everyone can improve and change, and grow (see the Pygmalion effect vs. the Golem effect) and treated them like that, they eventually usually did improve.

My mother told me that the iconic Israeli homeless man, "Ayalon Dude", (see an interview with him in Hebrew) once proposed her to marry him, because she treated him with respect and friendliness. She naturally refused because she was and still is happily married (to my father).

As a result, I don't think that Hollywood producers, executives, lawyers, directors, and other workers (or alternatively USA/etc. government, parliament, legal system, etc. workers are evil), just possibly misguided. Lawyers have been demonised, but I think most of the lawyers employed by the offenses in the Smartphone patent wars asked for a reassignment or quit in disgust, or they will. These "Smartphone wars" are a rerun of the "Jennens vs. Jennens" court case which gave many lawyers more work to do and made them a little richer, but made them more miserable.

A capable geek and hacker, will quickly enter clinical depression when working on destructive tasks, and this includes lawyers and politicians and socialites - even accountants. Someone told me of a documentary showing almost empty Silicon Valley office spaces of patent trolls as most of their workers quit in frustration (also see karma / "what goes around come around"). Even if a firm doing destructive tasks is not starved of customers, they will be starved of employees.

Similarly, I suspect the recent RIAA takedown request against youtube-dl's GitHub repository was done by a techsavvy lawyer employee of the RIAA, who had the legal endorsement to file it on behalf of the RIAA as a whole, and hoped to save future work this way. This is given the RIAA foolishly sends takedown notices to many publicly accessible web sites that host media files downloaded using it and similar tools ( Piracy, motherfucker! Do you speak it? Arrrrrr!! ), and they are kept being protested and challenged.

He or she may have been scolded by their executives, but do note Quark's positive reaction to Rom (= his brother and employee) attempting to murder him in a Star Trek DS9 episode. I think the real solution is to completely stop sending these takedown notices and accept them as a necessary "evil" (and possibly sponsor better user interfaces for file sharing sites and practice less censorship).

One reason the RIAA member companies embraced YouTube and other media sharing sites as distribution channels for their songs, was that there were enough independent singers who provided (sometimes not too inferior and often superior) covers of the songs and didn't care too much about getting direct ad revenue; it's not as if one gets penalised for getting a million views (or much more) rather than a mere one hundred. Furthermore, to quote Tim O'Reilly The greatest threat to authors and creative artists is not piracy — it’s obscurity..

The RIAA is happy now providing legal or financial services to signed artists and lately even actively promoting them and YouTuber singers (and the line between signed and independent artists has been getting blurry). As an analogy, The Roman Catholic church used to burn at stake girls who admitted to having premarital sex even once. Madonna, who identifies as a Catholic, and boasted of having had premarital sex with dozens of willing men, and I have no reason to doubt her, was not only left unharmed, but was welcome in some of the holiest churches in Israel and Palestine during her visit there. If you ask a Catholic clergyman if she or similar "sin"ful people should be killed again he'd likely say: Dear Lord no! 'Thou shall not kill'. It's up to God to punish them if they see fit, but we should not act as God's agents.. So the Roman Catholic church now is more benevolent - by choice.

More recently, the "Ceiling cat is watching you masturbate" captioned image, has stopped many preachers from using the shopworn "omniscient, omnipresent, deity [who cares about your sex life]" argument, but frankly, it was not effective, nor desirable. I think there are far better insights and memes in the Hebrew Bible, than that (despite being a non-observant agnostic).

Similarly, the RIAA is not going back to the pre-YouTube / pre-"piracy" days, because even if it could, it would rather not. We need to be more creative and resourceful when reforming the fiction/drama/Hollywood/film-industry/MPAA world, but I think we should try, and we likely can succeed.

The commercial fiction industry ( "Hollywood"/etc. ) is not a good oligopoly because they assume people will only enjoy fanfic from one franchise or at most two. This causes franchises to be territorialised even inside media conglomerates. OTOH before the 19th-20th centuries, creators mashed together the franchises of previous generations, along with RPFand current trends and events.

These were funny or entertaining by people who were not familiar with their origins and sources of inspiration (often indirect or subconscious ones). I recall enjoying the "Romans go home!" skit despite not being taught Latin, and enjoyed reading The Three Musketeers despite not being an expert in French history.

I think either Arnold Schwarzenegger or Emma Watson can afford to license the franchises which I used in my "Terminator: Liberation" screenplay starring them. Moreover, they have my blessing to change the screenplay as they see fit. Even if they do not license a franchise, then a (for example) "Walt Disney Corp. vs. Emma Watson", or perhaps "Walt Disney Corp. vs. Emma Watson Productions", or even "Walt Disney Corp. vs. Arnold Schwarzenegger Productions" court case will not look good to share holders. Like I say: One does not simply say "no" to an Alpha Female.

I recall an old Fortune magazine feature where Steven Spielberg was given advice to never finance a film out of your own pocket. Now's the time to challenge this guideline.

Natalie Portman and Tiffany Alvord can do the same with Queen Padmé [Amidala] Tales, which someone who read the first part of its Pilot episode, noted that "it was crazier than Run, Lola, Run".

I can further suggest the owners of major [and minor] franchises to put them under permissive licences, requesting that a donation be made in case there is profit. If one cannot legally accept donations, then they can sell digital goods with a minimal, but not maximal price similar to the Humble Bundle or bandcamp models. Hacks!

They can do it either by agreement or individually. As an analogy, I recall that back in the late 1990s, there was an initial resistance by commercial vendors of SQL databases to release official Linux ports of their databases (which could be built and run well on similar, but proprietary and costly, UNIX-like OSes). However, then they announced their intentions to do so one by one, and it was technologically easy to do and brought them many sales.

Also see my earlier thoughts about commercial fan-fiction.

Copyright maximalism, and franchise territorialism, are man-made problems, which can be subverted either legally, or in practice, by hacking around them. As an alternative to the more famous actors, cosplayers can play as them or one can produce lower-cost animations (including MLP-style animations) and solicit money for producing a live action version.

Naturally, there are more older (but still mostly pertinent in my opinion) fanfic screenplays on my site under modifiable Creative Commons licences sporting roles envisioned as played by:

1. the cast of Friends,

2. The cast of Buffy.

3. the cast of Star Trek Deep Space Nine along with Melissa Joan Hart and some modernised Biblical characters and some contemporary celebrities of the FOSS world.

4. Emma Watson (again!) along with Wil Wheaton, who is once again playing a big dick on screen ( while advocating the opposite in real life ).

5. Sarah Michelle Gellar and Summer Glau (as played by herself or by Megan Fox).

While I am playing the domineering The Messiah" for now (because frankly you guys suck!), there are likely others who reached the same conclusions. And my secret plan for Queen Padmé [Amidala] Tales is to create an even greater Hacker Monarch/Messiah, who despite being fictional, is an awe-inspiring Renaissance Woman. But she too will likely not be the final word about Messiah-hood just like Deep Thought 1 is only the "second greatest computer in the Universe of Time and Space". Like Moses, Socrates, Muhammad, Saladin, da Vinci, Newton, Richelieu, Dumas, Verne, The Beatles, The Muppets, etc, were succeeded, so will Queen Padmé Amidala of the Naboo of the Selinaverse. And it seems likely that people once took Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Saladin, Richelieu, or Dumas not as seriously as The Muppets, The Beatles, Buffy, or the Web 2.0 Bloggers, or xkcd.

All their criticism started to get to me: their opinions, their ideas, their words, their vision. Then I realised, this is my life. I'm not going to waste my time being something I'm not. I'm gonna be fearless. I'm going to take control, and I'm going to do it my way.

( "Renegade" by Cimorelli. )

I care more about getting my screenplays filmed and produced than I do about being recognised as an innovative and influential, yet obscure and "invisible" "hacker king" or "messiah" of the Web 2.0 / open content revolution.

And I care even more about flesh-and-blood people not dying physically and prematurely for whatever reason, or otherwise get physically injured, usually by their own mismanagement. I also want every individual and organisation in the world to improve and prosper ( Pygmalion effect vs. the Golem effect; Chuck Norris was challenged to fight the world, and accepted. He bet on himself, won, and collected the bet money.; Summer Glau can get more with a kind word alone than Al Capone could with a kind word and a gun.. )

I was probably too young to prevent the death of Samantha Smith, one of the youngest known hacker monarchs up to her time. I believe she died because in her later career as a child actress, she didn't insist on doing things her way, until she was killed by a private nighttime flight plane crash, which she took due to hubris and impatience.

I am however saddened that I didn't prevent the premature death of Christina Grimmie at age 22 in 2016, who was a singer, songwriter, and YouTube indie artist. I and others expected her to dominate the music world, or perhaps the whole world at large, for years to come (and become a "hacker monarch"/Messiah so to speak). She was killed by an obsessed fan, who shot her, and who committed suicide shortly after shooting her . I believe her death was also caused by her not doing things her way, which made her later work gradually deteriorate, her sex-appeal (which correlates with competence) to decline, and she not remaining true to her YouTuber roots (e.g: of she doing collaborations with other artists, including the more obscure ones). She acted in one film before she died, but even its trailer was a complete turnoff to me.

Thus I decided that in my quests to advocate commercial fan-fiction, and get my screenplays produced, I will do things my way. I shall remain living with my parents in their apartment and will not venture far away from my neighbourhood (= Ramat Aviv Gimel, in northern Tel Aviv , in Israel ) unescorted. I plan to continue writing the screenplays using my own home-grown format, at least until I find a better one, and write a semi-automatic converter.

I plan to release early and often, and not delete content from my sites that some others disapprove of. (Though I may add notes that I disapprove of it.)

I may have a lot of competition, but not only will I encourage them to try to outcompete me, but I will even try to help them. I don't want to be a dick and suggest that neither should you. I want to "win" and become rich and famous (and respected and admired), but setting artificial obstacles in the way of my peers, or people who still (unfortunately IMHO) see themselves as inferior to me, will backfire in the end, and will make me feel guilty and remorse and not Saladin-like.

People who complain about illustrated stories or screenplays, are advised to see the illustration on Edward Bulwer-Lytton's stage play "Richelieu". Furthermore, not only did the Hebrew Bible had hyperlinks of sorts, but many are currently broken.

( Education, entertainment, and amateur (= "geeky") philosophy have been done by humans for millennia, even if they were limited to talking about sports, food, or MOTAS. )

So linking is writing, and I am going to continue adding hyperlinks to my writings.

Currently, there aren't too many commercial parodical crossovers of fiction, but there is no reason why we cannot bend all the guidelines that prevent them. Joss Whedon wanted to remake Buffy the Vampire Slayer starring an unknown Black actress. Boring! Too P. C.!

But picture Emma Watson as Selina Mandrake, an anglo-American geeky high school girl, who is unathletic and clumsy, loves playing Basketball (but "royally sucks at it"), is completely non-violent toward the demons she slays, and even cares for them, and having watched the original series, finds the demonic underworld to be "quite a weird lot". Add in the fact that she is tormented by "The Guide" ( Wil Wheaton ) who despite seeming to possess powerful magic, and mustering weapons, claims she is a far better slayer than he is, and some Israeli secular Judaism ( Tanakh and the modern state of Israel, mostly) background, and a take it in your face milliards years-old "Elders of Zion"-like conspiracy.

Extremely not politically correct, which is why it is much more honest and fun and may prove more popular. "War is good for business".

OK, ok "Show Me the Money!". Note that like the Seldon Plan it is not set in stone and we'll have to improvise, or mutate it a bit. Moreover, they are just guidelines. It is likely they won't be the final challenge faced by the film industry and fiction industry or humanity as a whole, so we should not rest on our laurels.

Anyway I recommend:

1. Copyright owners to put their franchises under permissive licenses (possibly unilaterally).

2. Screenplay readers to accept screenplays in XHTML5/HTML5 format (with no JS, and with a linter).

3. Big name actors and actresses to set up production companies carrying their names.

4. Start directing films with fanfic: crossovers, , parodies, etc.

5. Film / TV shows / etc. owners should avoid trying to stamp out piracy. In addition, low-quality (720p/etc.) versions of the complete films should be provided free of charge on YouTube/etc. (For linking, making image macros / video macros / etc.)

Chuck Norris was challenged to fight the world, and accepted. He bet on himself, won, and collected the bet money.