CBS/Paramount sues to stop Axanar
- Thread starter Richard Baker
- Start date
- Status
That's the impression I keep having as I read him talking & listen to him talking & watch him in videos.
Now that would be quite interesting wouldn't it. I don't much see how it could happen though I definitely see how they could influence it, and might wish to influence it. Though I'm not familiar with the consensus.
This is a big yes to me. Yes they took it 'because' it would churn up so many issues. Yes being outrageous because of the press. Yes push it up to StH visibility. Yes yes yes = W&S decision to take the case.
That's an interesting thought too. And as an over all I won't expect W&S to care about the IP or IP law except that in doing a good job for this client adds to their resume for future client attraction (both defending & attacking IP). And I think they will be dogged in this. They are standing in a good place; 'they' have nothing to lose so they can take it to the mat with nit picking or anything they choose. Dig pick irritate push drag, work the press, work public opinion, influence anything they can with anything they can throw. Take their missteps, come back at it from a different angle. From the beginning I've thought this case would settle, most cases like this do, but I have 'never' believed W&S wanted to settle early to get it done with. Nu huh. They have a Plan.
It's sort of like if I wanted to be known and well paid for my work in The Business I would make something impressive to serve as a calling card for my work. Ms. Ranahan in particular and I believe W&S LA in general want to be in the big business of IP. Very lucrative. Very current. To get a chance to make IP law? It would serve as an impressive calling card for their work in the IP business.
So my own opinion, and which I see I missed was actually stated on the production site quite a while back.... They agreed to this case in the hope of making new IP law precedent or law itself. That 'is' what this case is about to them. This production is just this case's flavor.
Last edited:
Crowdfunder Insider article, December 30, 2015 is the direct quote I looked at this time but muCephi is correct that the original quote is from the production's fundraiser posted information.
Exactly. This "preview" was not for the public. It was for the AxaSheep.
It's a snooze-inducing, self-important narration that's trying to be more than what it really is — generic trailer voice over disguised as dialogue from the film.
Funny, though, I vaguely recall people getting all pumped up about the trailer when it first came out. People bashing Axanar on its creative merits are in large part just doing it to vent their frustration with Alec, and I bet some of the same people had been excited about it before (hence some here having donated). The only thing I remember people really complaining about when Prelude came out was the "Queen Bitch" line.
Actually, Mos, a lot of the complaining about the creative merits come out as people started to quit the production early on. It's a whole 'nother mess of messy backstory that we needed get into detail here, but don't think for a minute that the complaints are invalid or a personal grudge against Alec.
Not everyone was pumped when PRELUDE came out. I certainly wasn't. I praised it for breaking the format, and criticized it for not really saying anything interesting about the horrors of war. And yes, I was one of those that slammed them for the "Queen Bitch" line. My criticism of PRELUDE had and still doesn't have anything to do with my frustrations with Alec.
I am quite able to separate the work from the person. Although in the case of Axanar — the work is the person. So the lines can be blurry.
So this new "trailer" is nothing but some visuals of a space parking lot with JG Hertzler talking. Yep, this is the "real" Star Trek that "the fans" want, all right! It's just like Gene Roddenberry said in his original Star Trek pitch in 1964:
"In a world where the Federation is collapsing under the pressure of manufactured drama... one man will rise from the ashes of stilted dialogue to embark on a repetitive journey of heroism and emerge victorious over every single contrived obstacle..."
Space parking lot. Where have a I seen that before.
AXANAR is really a BABYLON 5 fan film disguised as an independent STAR TREK production.
It puts the "Ew" in "Pew, Pew."
It was the dawn of the third age of Star Trek, ten years after the cancellation of Enterprise.Space parking lot. Where have a I seen that before.
AXANAR is really a BABYLON 5 fan film disguised as an independent STAR TREK production.
The Axanar project was a dream given form for those people too lazy to come up with their own. It's goal: to prevent another JJ pew-pew fest by creating a pew-pew fest. It's a port of call, a home away from home for hustlers, hustlers, hustlers and hustlers.
Extras directors and faux-Fulfillment Directors wrapped up in the worlds biggest green screen, all alone in the Californian sunshine.
It can be a dangerous place, particularly for those who dare to speak out against proceedings, but it's Alec Peters' last best hope for some sort of meaningful career. I mean, there was the volleyball thing but that was decades ago.
This is the story of the last of the fanfilms, the year is 2016, the name of the place is Aries, sorry, Valkyrie, I mean, INDUSTRY studios (this week anyway).
Intellectual property law is a lot older than that. See: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1447933
Plus the United States Copyright Office dates back to 1870. Hell, copyright is in the Constitution!
http://www.copyright.gov/
http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92preface.html
Exactly.
- Status