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CBS/Paramount sues to stop Axanar

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Jody Wheeler said:
Paramount:

"We're pleased to confirm we are in settlement discussions and are also working on a set of fan film guidelines."

https://twitter.com/adambvary/status/733886588371931140
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hm. If they issue a set of guidelines that lets anyone do any Trek IP, they will probably have to let Axanar slip in under those guidelines.

Question might be will they go the direction of Star Wars fan films, essentially making features impossible? That would be a way for JJ to be telling the truth, while the corporate powers get their net-net shutdown of TV/movie comparables. JJ only said 'the fan' will get to make his film, he didn't say "all of his film".

Nothing longer than 20 minutes.
 
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muCephi said:
hm. If they issue a set of guidelines that lets anyone do any Trek IP, they will probably have to let Axanar slip in under those guidelines.

Question might be will they go the direction of Star Wars fan films, essentially making features impossible? That would be a way for JJ to be telling the truth, while the corporate powers get their net-net shutdown of TV/movie comparables.

Nothing longer than 20 minutes.
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The guidelines should be fascinating. There was a guy about 200 pages ago who penned an elegant missive about Alec's misdeeds while also predicting that Paramount/CBS would develop guidelines. I can't be bothered to find his post, but I invite him to drop by for an "I told you so" because none of us saw that potentiality.
 
And just think, if Alec is in some control of the studio built with Trek money, he can market the props/costumes too. And maybe follow the rumored precedent of films like LOTR, and make a dozen screen used swords per scene, used like the President's signing pens for one part of a letter each.
 
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Jody Wheeler said:
Paramount:

"We're pleased to confirm we are in settlement discussions and are also working on a set of fan film guidelines."

https://twitter.com/adambvary/status/733886588371931140
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Not that big of a shock really. Most lawsuits are settled. Unlike what JJ was saying up there, it's not quiet the same thing as CBS deciding to just drop the whole thing. CBS does have a history of getting a maybe-plaintiff to give them everything they want, just because CBS said 'if you do this, we'll give you the opportunity to pitch a script to us.'

I do wonder how CBS will go about setting 'guidelines'. Star Wars has 'em, but it's for one competition, doesn't act as a broad permission for all fanfilms, instantly makes said film property of Disney's/Lucas's (meaning they can yank it off YouTube anytime they want), and the rules themselves were very restrictive. Prelude by itself broke nearly all of them. Somehow, I don't see Axanar's uber-fans being pleased with getting exactly what they wanted.
 
This is a pleasant surprise really, I'm not sure why people feel disgruntled about it. This is the beginning of the next phase of the soap opera, I think. We're now a bit closer to the point where Team Axanar has to deliver on what they've been promising and after the pages and pages of bluster, self-promotion and doing down of just about everything else Star Trek what they end up producing had better live up to their own hype or....

Is there a feeling that Alec Peters has 'gotten away with it'? Let's wait and see what the settlement includes first.
 
HIjol said:
Well, if nothing else, there is now a primer for how to Thief Corporate Copyrighted Materials™. The Warehouse Man can always get a gig as an Infringement Consultant.
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If only there weren't a million of those all over the world just waiting for a studio to let this turn into a crack in the wall...
 
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