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CBS/Paramount sues to stop Axanar

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Spotted this on the Stand with Axanar page...

‎Ray Dall‎ to Axanar
Yesterday at 03:40 ·
Point of fact:
Any lawyer worth his salt could make quick and final business of this.
The PEOPLE have spoken. The PEOPLE want more Star Trek. If the big corporations are either unwilling or unable to fulfill the will of those people, then a time honored LEGAL principle should be taken advantage of.
If a road were going in, and a person or company were standing in the way - Eminent Domain would take effect, and that person or company would be forced to move on.
So here's the deal.
Now - we have something more powerful than eminent domain... it is called PUBLIC DOMAIN, and when the PUBLIC wants something that can't be provided by either the governments or corporations, it simply falls to common sense that crowd-funding, crowd-sourcing, and public domain take eminent domain of the project and move forward with it.
Copyrights be damned. All they were EVER invented for was to restrict the public and take their money.
If the people want to make their own Star Trek - then it should happen, and the courts should do the right thing, and "make it so."
 
That's not quite correct. From what I recall FASA released a couple of TNG sourcebooks BEFORE the series was officially aired, and was based on some pre production comments and notes, and conflicted with what was actually going to be in the series -- they also did so because they ASSUMED their license applied to ANY Star Trek aspect (released or not released). Paramount didn't see it that way; brought the specifics of their contract to their attention and asked to stop selling anything related to TNG. FASA refused; and Paramount took them to court (and won); and then refused to renew their license - which ended FASAs involvement with Star Trek. The whole "GR was unhappy because FASA's stuff was too militaristic" is fan made BS. The decision was 100% Paramount's - and based on the fact FASA violated an existing license agreement.

I stand corrected. I remember the TNG manual situation, but I also remember a lot of scuttlebutt at the time about the militaristic stuff. This was around the same time that Diane Carey was going on about not being allowed to mention USMC in the dedication to one of her books, and Richard Arnold was pulling all his stunts, and after Roddenberry pissed all over TWOK for being too military and warlike, so it certainly seemed right. But I can't find any real evidence.
 
Wellllllllllll I was going to pop over and have a look at it, but it seems I may have been blocked and kicked out of the group. I didn't even say anything rude or anything. LOL. Maybe they didn't like me joining I Stand with CBS. :guffaw::guffaw::guffaw:
 
Wellllllllllll I was going to pop over and have a look at it, but it seems I may have been blocked and kicked out of the group. I didn't even say anything rude or anything. LOL. Maybe they didn't like me joining I Stand with CBS. :guffaw::guffaw::guffaw:

Maybe so
 

Thanks for posting that report. Instead of filming Axanar, Peters & Co decided to invest in so-called infrastructure (Ares Studios, Ares Digital, Sci-Fi Film School, Axacon, and merchandizing) as a for-profit business while blatantly violating CBS/Paramount's IP. What happened to Axanar being a nonprofit fan film? Total bait and switch. I'm going to various fundme sites to start a fan film, Indiana Smith And The Temple Of Gloom. Nevermind I'm going to use those donations to set myself up with a production studio, SXF studio, a filming school, and merch tie-ins for my own business conglomerate from someone elses IP. LOL.
 
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It's a brightly light room with a large amount of workstations tied into primary systems of a ship, that is kept to a high standard of maintenance and has a largely white colour scheme only so far as some bulkheads.

But it does seem amusing that bashing a highly successful business that enhances peoples lives by saying "HAHAHA you're trusted with making the nerve center of every Starfleet ship in the future, losers!" comes up so often.

I mean, how dare we consider one of the biggest technological innovators of the century might have an impact 200 years from now in some small way?

It should all by drab, black and red, 60's disco, wood and crude plastic that breaks when someone sneezes and using transistors the size of saucesages damnit!
 

Axanar is a professional production in that we do pay people who work on the
production. This is not a group of fans getting together and having a great time
playing Star Trek (although we certainly enjoy it). That means we do things like
a studio would. And of course, it also means things cost more. We don’t cut
corners, and we think the results speak for themselves. Prelude to Axanar is the
only Star Trek fan film that looks like it came from a modern Hollywood studio.

But, behaving like a professional production means everything costs more
money. No other fan film has production insurance like we do. (We pay $12,000
a year for that, alone.) Our volunteers are actually covered by Worker’s
Compensation Insurance! As with any business, all utilities cost more, and there
are numerous permits and periodic inspections which must be paid. Plus,
we’re based in Los Angeles, where everything costs more. But in the end, what
you get is a higher-quality production.

Good lord. CBS is going sink this guy. :lol:
If that was the only piece of evidence they had, I think it would be more than enough. :wtf:
 
If some of the people on the Axanar fan group were any thicker, Superman wouldn't be able to see through them. It's absurd. Here's the latest from Alec:

Alec_FBAxanar_1_3_16115pm.png
 
He's deploying the thugs to sort things out as well as deleting all content that goes against him?

This man needs to be strapped down and medicated heavily.
 
If some of the people on the Axanar fan group were any thicker, Superman wouldn't be able to see through them. It's absurd. Here's the latest from Alec:

Alec_FBAxanar_1_3_16115pm.png

Oh pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease Alec... Let your underlings do that - do that to me, and I shall see you in court for the Malicious Communications Act
 
Can we guess how long it will be until court procedings start or not? How will it work?

Paramount and CBS served the lawsuit on December 29. Axanar Productions and Peters have 21 days to file either an answer to the complaint or a motion to dismiss. I suspect they'll attempt the latter.

Within the next couple of weeks, we should see a motion from CBS and Paramount for a preliminary injunction to halt all production on the Axanar feature, as well as an order to pull distribution of Prelude and the four-minute Vulcan scene. Hard to say when the court will hear that but probably not before the end of this month at the earliest.
 
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