CBS/Paramount sues to stop Axanar

[oswriter]

I was just wondering about something. Although we can speculate about this, that and the other... Is Axanar Productions and Ares Studios two legally separate companies?

Also... Kittens Recreate Kirk v Spock

Axanar Productions, Inc., appears to be the sole legal entity producing Axanar. Of course, it would be interesting to know who owns Axanar Productions. The lawsuit identifies Peters as the "principal," but there could be other owners.

Axanar Productions is also the company listed as a signatory to the SAG-AFTRA contract, not Ares Studios, again suggesting they are not separate entities.

 

[nx1701g]

I was just wondering about something. Although we can speculate about this, that and the other... Is Axanar Productions and Ares Studios two legally separate companies?

Also... Kittens Recreate Kirk v Spock

Ares Studios is its own company, and is producing Axanar, if the website is to be believed: http://www.axanarproductions.com/ares-studios-launches/

Also, this little snippet may hurt them:

The leasing of this warehouse is due to YOU the donors, and thus you are all part of this project. And, it enables us to not only produce “Axanar”, and other Star Trek and Sci-Fi projects, but to bring you Sci-Fi Film School and Axacon, the coolest Star Trek convention ever, where you will actually get to be part of your own film on the Axanar sets.

Intellectual property? What's that?

So he wanted to do his own conventions now too? Yet another form of licensed IP...

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

Ironically, their own website calls themselves out

Is Axanar licensed by CBS/Paramount?

No, Axanar is an independent project that uses the intellectual property of CBS under the provision that Axanar is totally non-commercial. That means we can never charge for anything featuring their marks or intellectual property and we will never sell the movie, DVD/Blu-ray copies, T-shirts, or anything which uses CBS owned marks or intellectual property.

So why are you making Axanar?

Also, looking at Axanar's website and was blown away by the outstanding qualifications that Alec has

The leader and visionary of the Axanar project, Alec is the epitome of someone who discovers their calling and succeeds in pursuing it. An attorney by training, Alec coached an NCAA Championship volleyball team at USC and with the US National team, then struck off and started five companies earning him an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2003.

 

[nx1701g]

I was just wondering about something. Although we can speculate about this, that and the other... Is Axanar Productions and Ares Studios two legally separate companies?

Also... Kittens Recreate Kirk v Spock

Axanar Productions, Inc., appears to be the sole legal entity producing Axanar. Of course, it would be interesting to know who owns Axanar Productions. The lawsuit identifies Peters as the "principal," but there could be other owners.

Axanar Productions is also the company listed as a signatory to the SAG-AFTRA contract, not Ares Studios, again suggesting they are not separate entities.

It'll be interesting to see what his announcement on Monday will be...

 

[Smoked Salmon]

So let's see:-

1) Merchandise such as coffee - commercial (mainly for the co-partners)

2) Equipment bought and fitted for future money making uses - commericial

3) A convention - commercial

4) Personal salaries of Peters and his girlfriend - profit. Just what is the girlfriend's job? $10 says it's a bullshit one created by Peters to pay them both enough to totally live on.

Yeah, not for profit my hairy arse....

 

[Karzak]

Also, looking at Axanar's website and was blown away by the outstanding qualifications that Alec has

The leader and visionary of the Axanar project, Alec is the epitome of someone who discovers their calling and succeeds in pursuing it. An attorney by training, Alec coached an NCAA Championship volleyball team at USC and with the US National team, then struck off and started five companies earning him an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2003.

 

[Red Shirt]

No one is profiting off Axanar?

Burnett's comments in the past (the Blastr article in August 2015) declare otherwise:

Alec Peters & Co. are by their own incriminating statements, screwed. They remind me of the Ferengi.

 

[Smoked Salmon]

I love the fact that he bangs on about being a lawyer, when it reality he's just someone who passed his exams and thereafter didn't do a day in practice (which would explain why he's so clueless when it comes to this case).

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

Also, looking at Axanar's website and was blown away by the outstanding qualifications that Alec has

The leader and visionary of the Axanar project, Alec is the epitome of someone who discovers their calling and succeeds in pursuing it. An attorney by training, Alec coached an NCAA Championship volleyball team at USC and with the US National team, then struck off and started five companies earning him an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2003.

My thoughts exactly...

I was just wondering about something. Although we can speculate about this, that and the other... Is Axanar Productions and Ares Studios two legally separate companies?

Also... Kittens Recreate Kirk v Spock

Axanar Productions, Inc., appears to be the sole legal entity producing Axanar. Of course, it would be interesting to know who owns Axanar Productions. The lawsuit identifies Peters as the "principal," but there could be other owners.

Axanar Productions is also the company listed as a signatory to the SAG-AFTRA contract, not Ares Studios, again suggesting they are not separate entities.

It'll be interesting to see what his announcement on Monday will be...

Apart from it being a working day, what is special about Monday? if it is press release, he has been doing that a good deal on websites

If August is when the lawyers talked to Peters, and I am sure they did, I bet this must have ticked off EPK - supposed "fanfilms" do not need Electronic Press Kits

 

[oswriter]

I love the fact that he bangs on about being a lawyer, when it reality he's just someone who passed his exams and thereafter didn't do a day in practice (which would explain why he's so clueless when it comes to this case).

Meanwhile, here's the guy CBS and Paramount are bringing in to run their case.

 

[Smoked Salmon]

Also, I wonder why he resumé doesn't mention that Propworx, his previous endeavour, went bankrupt.

Do Ernst and Young award him "Bankruptee of the Year" as well?

 

[Smoked Salmon]

I love the fact that he bangs on about being a lawyer, when it reality he's just someone who passed his exams and thereafter didn't do a day in practice (which would explain why he's so clueless when it comes to this case).

Meanwhile, here's the guy CBS and Paramount are bringing in to run their case.

Yeah, I already checked that out. Once of my ex-colleagues specialises in media law and is aware of the firm.

 

[Harvey]

That press kit says "in production this fall."

Missed it by... that... much.

 

[BillJ]

I love the fact that he bangs on about being a lawyer, when it reality he's just someone who passed his exams and thereafter didn't do a day in practice (which would explain why he's so clueless when it comes to this case).

Meanwhile, here's the guy CBS and Paramount are bringing in to run their case.

He should be able to work this case from vacation in the Bahamas and make a mint while doing it. He probably hasn't seen a slam dunk case like this in his career.

All he has to do is bring a bag of Axanar Coffee to court!

 

[Shon T'Hara]

I was just wondering about something. Although we can speculate about this, that and the other... Is Axanar Productions and Ares Studios two legally separate companies?

Last time I had jury duty, part of the case turned on whether a cab company and a limo service owned by the same guy were separate entities. What it came down to was that both companies were using the same office, the same computers, the same filing cabinets, etc., the drivers switched between cabs and limos according as need be, and even though each business had a different phone number, in practice they were used interchangeably, with the same person answering both lines. There was so much overlap between the two that even though they were registered as separate companies, they were legally identical.

 

[SFC3]

I love the fact that he bangs on about being a lawyer, when it reality he's just someone who passed his exams and thereafter didn't do a day in practice (which would explain why he's so clueless when it comes to this case).

Meanwhile, here's the guy CBS and Paramount are bringing in to run their case.

He should be able to work this case from vacation in the Bahamas and make a mint while doing it. He probably hasn't seen a slam dunk case like this in his career.

All he has to do is bring a bag of Axanar Coffee to court!

And a A-Cup maker, an officially licensed Axanar coffee maker.

 

[nx1701g]

Apart from it being a working day, what is special about Monday? if it is press release, he has been doing that a good deal on websites

He said earlier that there was some sort of special announcement for Monday. It's somewhere in this thread... somewhere.

 

[oswriter]

I love the fact that he bangs on about being a lawyer, when it reality he's just someone who passed his exams and thereafter didn't do a day in practice (which would explain why he's so clueless when it comes to this case).

Meanwhile, here's the guy CBS and Paramount are bringing in to run their case.

He should be able to work this case from vacation in the Bahamas and make a mint while doing it. He probably hasn't seen a slam dunk case like this in his career.

All he has to do is bring a bag of Axanar Coffee to court!

I actually feel kinda bad for the paralegals who are going to have to sit and listen to 30-plus hours of those Axanar podcasts for research.

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

Meanwhile, here's the guy CBS and Paramount are bringing in to run their case.

He should be able to work this case from vacation in the Bahamas and make a mint while doing it. He probably hasn't seen a slam dunk case like this in his career.

All he has to do is bring a bag of Axanar Coffee to court!

I actually feel kinda bad for the paralegals who are going to have to sit and listen to 30-plus hours of those Axanar podcasts for research.

 

[oswriter]

Apart from it being a working day, what is special about Monday? if it is press release, he has been doing that a good deal on websites

He said earlier that there was some sort of special announcement for Monday. It's somewhere in this thread... somewhere.

"I have to go now. My planet needs me."