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CBS/Paramount sues to stop Axanar

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jespah said:
There is no need to hesitate and, in fact, there are a lot of reasons not to.

A few ideas, in the order of when I found them in my notes (:)):
  • File a complaint with the California Attorney General's office
  • Donors can band together and file a class action suit, probably venued in California, so choose a lawyer with class action experience who is admitted to practice there
  • Donors can act individually and bring cases in small claims court (this is most cost-effective if you have a fairly substantial amount in controversy, e. g. probably over $100 or so, and you can easily get to court in California)
  • Start talking to a local crusading consumer affairs reporter (California would be best) and see if they will investigate
  • Take it up with your local representative (but keep in mind it's an election year in the US, so all bets are off)
  • Try to get a charge back from your credit card company or PayPal
  • Complaint to Kickstarter and IndieGoGo (they will refer you to their Terms of Service, and then you get to refer them to where their TOS's state they won't take on projects where the project owner can't prove IP ownership. Hey, it's worth a shot)
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And as was mentioned by oswriter a few pages ago

http://www.trekbbs.com/threads/cbs-paramount-sues-to-stop-axanar.278077/page-1092#post-11646807

the FTC has worked on similar crowdfunding fraud investigations:

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/pre...project-creator-settles-ftc-charges-deception

Notice that a staff member contact is at the bottom of the FTC page. That would be a place to start. And a very pointy stick (no sense using a banana).

Get the FTC to state they are investigating and I bet FB and IGG will take notice.
 
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From SciFi4Me.com's Echo Chamber podcast:

It’s official: Star Trek fan films now have rules guidelines. And while some fans are balking at the “draconian” measures set forth by CBS and Paramount, others recognize that it’s a new common starting point that gives all fan productions a level playing field.

Michael Hinman, editor-in-chief of 1701News, and Carlos Pedraza, editor of AxaMonitor, join our panel in an examination of the new fan film guidelines that have been announced in the wake of the lawsuit against Axanar. Will this have a chilling effect on fan films? Will it foster a new round of creativity and innovation?
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It was a fun roundtable discussion! Listen to it here »
 
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Bye Felicia.........

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Dennis said:
That was Charles Britto's "You can't throw me out of this group, I quit!" post last evening, just a bit before he was banned for aiming racially-tinged insults at an innocent bystander.

As a man, he's beneath contempt.
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From what I gather on Facebook (like to lurk in the C/P V Axanar group), I don't doubt it. Sheesh.........(maybe him & LFIM are related).

That kind of stuff goes far beyond blind appreciation or loyalty and straight into the realm of Heaven's Gate and Hale Bopp........
 
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RedForman said:
Bye Felicia.........

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I notice no mention is made of ANY substantive charge of financial or other misconduct by Axanar which is discussed here, or of the fact that CBS/P also hold those opinions, and likely the state AG and even FTC might get on board...

Gravity, aerodynamics, structural engineering, those things are such HATERS of his chosen aircraft. They HATE the destination he has chosen. They HATE all the people who bought tickets based on his assurance that the aircraft was sound. Existence is such a HATER.

That insignificant hate group cannot kill the awesomeness of the fundamentally defective Axanar aircraft. The sheer awesomeness of the pilot and owner is more than a match for both wings lost. The passengers can wish themselves to their destination and overrule physics. And climate change doesn't exist. And the earth is flat.
 
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Csalem said:
Ooh we are only about 2,500 views away from 1 million views for this thread.
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None of which are press, or CBS/P attorneys, or disaffected Axanar donors, no sirree... just a dozen haters, each making about 80,000 hits on the thread in the last 6.5 months, or 25 hits per hour each, for 16 hours a day over the entire time. Nope, no other viewers... no impact on anything...
 
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