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CBS/Paramount sues to stop Axanar

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Why not...? His stomach puts out more of a gravitational pull then Nimbus III!

Besides, if he can use insulting language towards us, I'm quite happy to return fire as RTF has done
You need to be better than him. His put downs are wrong of course, but it's even worse to make fun of someone for their physical appearance. Opinions can (though rarely on the internet) change.

Neil
 
I feel just fine, thanks very much. I appreciate your heartfelt concern.

Good, because god's forbid anything happens to you when you read about someone on the internet calling someone else fat.

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I think we are going to see a very long list of alleged infringements coming out of this.

CBS/Paramount should definitely grab and transcribe all the Axanar podcasts and go over them to make a laundry list of issues to raise in discovery and depositions. Even in the one podcast I carefully listened to wrt/ this suit, there were enough flat out admissions by AP and his director to fill a day of questions, and generate pages of demands for documents.
 
My one concern at this point is whether CBS and Paramount's legal people are as on top of this stuff -- coffee, donor store, minions, Axanar blog posts, all that -- as we are. It'd be pretty damn annoying if they missed some good evidence because they aren't nerdy enough to know where to look.
 
My one concern at this point is whether CBS and Paramount's legal people are as on top of this stuff -- coffee, donor store, minions, Axanar blog posts, all that -- as we are. It'd be pretty damn annoying if they missed some good evidence because they aren't nerdy enough to know where to look.
Perhaps, but did you see how quickly the coffee went away once it was pointed out?

Neil
 
Paramount is NOT a license holder. If they were, they would not be a party to sue.
That's why I mentioned the "exclusive" part, exclusive license holders can sue if the license gives them enforcement rights, and I'd assume that Paramount's license to make Star Trek films is exclusive. Usually in such cases the licensee would have to have to indemnify the licensor for any potential liability incurred as a result of bringing suit, as well as pick up the cost of the licensor's expenses from providing any assistance required/requested, since the main reason a licensor usually does not want to enforce infringement is the cost isn't worth it to them.
 
My one concern at this point is whether CBS and Paramount's legal people are as on top of this stuff -- coffee, donor store, minions, Axanar blog posts, all that -- as we are. It'd be pretty damn annoying if they missed some good evidence because they aren't nerdy enough to know where to look.

Anyone, please correct me if I'm wrong but I believe the current lawsuit is only toward the Prelude and the Vulcan scene. They probably don't need the stuff you've mentioned to nail these guys to the wall for every cent they have.
 
That's why I mentioned the "exclusive" part, exclusive license holders can sue if the license gives them enforcement rights, and I'd assume that Paramount's license to make Star Trek films is exclusive. Usually in such cases the licensee would have to have to indemnify the licensor for any potential liability incurred as a result of bringing suit, as well as pick up the cost of the licensor's expenses from providing any assistance required/requested, since the main reason a licensor usually does not want to enforce infringement is the cost isn't worth it to them.

Anyone with the rights to produce can sue. Like Marvel and FOX with X-MEN. Both or either one of them can sue because Marvel holds the rights to the X-MEN comics and FOX holds the rights to make X-MEN movies. But it was Marvel that took initiative and filed the CandD against that X-men : Danger Room Protocols some weeks ago. Also because the guy behind was a Alec Peters copycat by doing Kickstarter and selling prints of X-MEN.
 
Anyone, please correct me if I'm wrong but I believe the current lawsuit is only toward the Prelude and the Vulcan scene. They probably don't need the stuff you've mentioned to nail these guys to the wall for every cent they have.

No, they probably don't. I could see though how the egregious and continually arrogant behavior of Lord Alec, Fat Terry et al. could demonstrate a pattern of behavior that would give rise to spurious claims of what C/P **might** be amending their complaint to include.
 
Anyone, please correct me if I'm wrong but I believe the current lawsuit is only toward the Prelude and the Vulcan scene. They probably don't need the stuff you've mentioned to nail these guys to the wall for every cent they have.
Nope. The lawsuit bunches Prelude and Axanar (of which the Vulcan Scene is a constituent part) under the umbrella term "the Axanar Works."
 
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