Exactly! Thanks, Karzak, for finding this "Gem"! But turns out, I was wrong, too...
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CBS/Paramount sues to stop Axanar
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Exactly! Thanks, Karzak, for finding this "Gem"! But turns out, I was wrong, too...
I hope that he gets crushed so badly that he won't have a clean pair of underwear left with which to wear to make any films at all.
IKR. Well, I did read the complaint. So did half the people here.
And how many years ago was that post?
Oh, perhaps you mean this gem of a passage?
[Note: this is from a thread about Yorktown: A Time to Heal, a fan film which is still, today, nearly a year from it's completion and release as detailed by its producer.... which would put it out more than two years after Starship Exeter's "The Tressaurian Intersection" finally came out.]
You own the toys and decide who plays with them, just like with CBS and the BBC, by the way.
1099-------------------$17,420.00
Alec Peters-------------$38,166.57
Diana Kingsbury ------Deferred
Robert Burnett----------$5,000.00
Curtis Laseter-----------$9,800.00
Misc. Salaries-----------$48,042.31
Total==========$118,428.88
And how many years ago was that post?
Oh, perhaps you mean this gem of a passage?
[Note: this is from a thread about Yorktown: A Time to Heal, a fan film which is still, today, nearly a year from it's completion and release as detailed by its producer.... which would put it out more than two years after Starship Exeter's "The Tressaurian Intersection" finally came out.]
Just over two years ago, from Dec. 13, 2013.
So it's paramount who are acting like the toddlers by refusing to share?
Paramount/CBS is happy to share, unofficially. But when you take the toys that were loaned to you and try to sell them for your own profit without permission of the actual owner...you get Axanar.
Isn't the owner of the toy entitled not to share?
CBS and Paramount have thus far been willing to share... This is the first time, where they have "Taken back" their toys so to speak....
So something is different with Axanar... What is it? I suspect that it's in the Annual Report... because that was released 2 weeks before the suit was filed... I could be mistaken... I don't know CBS or Paramount's legal team strategy... it just seems too coincidental for me...
So Which is it Alec? Is the Complaint relevant or not? because you seem to be contradicting yourself here...
CBS and Paramount have "shared" with many, many fan films over the years.
They're objecting, here, to theft for profit. The people behind the project may simply have been confused or misguided, but that doesn't mean that it's in anyone's interest to tolerate what they're doing here.
They're objecting, here, to theft for profit. The people behind the project may simply have been confused or misguided, but that doesn't mean that it's in anyone's interest to tolerate what they're doing here.
They filed a lawsuit and asked for an injunction now I don't think you have to Perry Mason to work out in broad terms what CBS is thinking...
I was just about to post something very similar. This isn't rocket science. The writing is on the wall.
And chances are, it will settle out of court. Regardless if any money changes hands, the likelihood of Axanar proceeding as is is nil.
Yep, Alec opened his trap a week too soon, since on December 22 2013 the Exeter countdown appeared.
Y'know, these vocal Axanar defenders are starting to remind me of a certain group in the American political landscape.
Consider: we have a group of angry people: predominantly white, male, and middle-aged. They're passionately devoted to a thing to the point where they feel a certain ownership of it, and they're mad because the people who control that thing aren't managing things in a way they agree with. They fervently believe that, were the founder of this thing still alive, he would completely agree with them. They feel like the people in charge have abandoned the founder's original intentions, and that it's incumbent upon them to take this thing back so that the founder's original intention for it can be restored and things can be like they were in the good old days.
It's so obvious: Axanar fandom is the Star Trek Tea Party. I'm not getting political here and saying that the Tea Party is good or bad, just pointing out that if you swap out a few proper nouns ("George Washington" for "Gene Roddenberry", "America" or "the Constitution" for "Star Trek") a lot of the arguments they make and the way they make them are practically identical.
Consider: we have a group of angry people: predominantly white, male, and middle-aged. They're passionately devoted to a thing to the point where they feel a certain ownership of it, and they're mad because the people who control that thing aren't managing things in a way they agree with. They fervently believe that, were the founder of this thing still alive, he would completely agree with them. They feel like the people in charge have abandoned the founder's original intentions, and that it's incumbent upon them to take this thing back so that the founder's original intention for it can be restored and things can be like they were in the good old days.
It's so obvious: Axanar fandom is the Star Trek Tea Party. I'm not getting political here and saying that the Tea Party is good or bad, just pointing out that if you swap out a few proper nouns ("George Washington" for "Gene Roddenberry", "America" or "the Constitution" for "Star Trek") a lot of the arguments they make and the way they make them are practically identical.
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