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Quoting hal9g:

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If the filmmakers give a credit such as "From a Story By...", then they apparently felt a need to credit that person.  I've even seen a credit such as "Based on an Idea by...".  Again, if the filmmakers see fit to give this person a credit for their idea, then why would we want to leave it out of DVDP as an OMB credit?

It seems to me that OMB should be allowed a very wide interpretation, not a narrow one.

I agree with this (especially the bolded part).

Me too

Quoting T!M:

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The unfortunate conclusion is that without guidance from Invelos, we're simply stuck with different users handling this in different ways.

I know this is an old topic, but Invelos just approved a contribution changing the film credit "From an Original Story by" from OMB to Story By, in spite of a "no" vote referring back to this thread.  So I'd say the "official word" is that From a Story By is Story By and not OMB.

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Quoting Ace_of_Sevens:

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<snip> ...but it should at least be hypothetically publishable... <snip>

How would we possibly be able to determine such a thing?

If the filmmakers give a credit such as "From a Story By...", then they apparently felt a need to credit that person.  I've even seen a credit such as "Based on an Idea by...".  Again, if the filmmakers see fit to give this person a credit for their idea, then why would we want to leave it out of DVDP as an OMB credit?

It seems to me that OMB should be allowed a very wide interpretation, not a narrow one.

I agree with Hal as well.

There is nothing that staes the original work has to be published.

I think the best way to determine how this shoudl be handled isn't to guess based on the words, but look at some real-life examples of the credit and see how they correspond to the concepts the different credit categories are supposed to represent. BTW, the category is original media by, which I think means the original had to exist in some medium to qualify. It's a real stretch to call a plot pitch a medium.

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BTW, the category is original media by,

No, the category is original material by.

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which I think means the original had to exist in some medium to qualify. It's a real stretch to call a plot pitch a medium.

The word 'medium' was specifically removed from this credit so that this restriction no longer applies.

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Human personnel who make mistakes.  You are, of course, free to disagree, but I still consider that an OMB credit.

I do to, but apparently Invelos either does not, or does not care one way or the other.  My suspicion is the latter, which is why I vote and contribute so infrequently.

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Anything not fixed in a medium is immaterial anyway.

I don't thinks so as one of the reasons the credit was changed is for a credit of "Based on an Idea by."