CBS/Paramount sues to stop Axanar

[BillJ]

Given the clock is ticking - any sign of these Top IP lawyers?

 

[Kor]

All the details of this debacle have been very well described thus far.

I would just like to unequivocally and unapologetically say that I think the whole Axanar project is a joke.

I hope that wasn't too harsh.

Kor

 

[The Transformed Man]

Given the clock is ticking - any sign of these Top IP lawyers?

 

[CorporalClegg]

That frankly Lame-O-Matic™ script is what most puzzles me about the rabid enthusiasm for this thing. There's no there there. So why some people are so convinced this is going to be the Second Coming is a Mystery for the Ages... or at least for the moment.

Because it was going to be "professional quality," whatever the hell that means. To me, it sounds like nothing more than an arbitrary advertising label.

But if all they were excited about where the pretty colors and C-list actors, then this whole thing comes off as really silly, if not entirely hypocritical.

 

[Red Shirt]

Given the clock is ticking - any sign of these Top IP lawyers?

Maybe Peters is hoping Lionel Hutz will call him.

 

[Professor Zoom]

This was posted in the I Stand With CBS Facebook group. But this "production log" video of Axanar from April 2015 was when I started to really scrutinize the project. In this log, Peters and Burnett discuss dropping $185,000 on the studio space and their renovation plans.

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OMG. Steve Carrell should totally play Alec Peters when the (fan) movie of this is made.

 

[Mudd]

The latest from Alec Peters on the lawsuit:

"Much depends on what the law firm we retain tells us. Till then we are minimizing any comments, so you will forgive us for our relative silence."

The takeaway: they still haven't got competent legal counsel.

When's their answer due?

 

[BillJ]

When's their answer due?

Tuesday, I believe.

 

[fireproof78]

The latest from Alec Peters on the lawsuit:



The takeaway: they still haven't got competent legal counsel.

When's their answer due?

Why does that sound like too little too late.

"We are minimizing our comments..." because, thus far, your comments have done very well.

 

[Karzak]

Tuesday, I believe.

They left Spacedock without a lawyer? Don't tell me -- Tuesday?

 

[trynda1701]

Not even the team of Matlock and Perry Mason could get them off on this case!

 

[Mudd]

Is Peters likely capable, on the basis of his own background, of filing some kind of motion for delay?

 

[oswriter]

Maybe Peters is hoping Lionel Hutz will call him.

Works on contingency?
No, money down!

 

[JD]

Because it was going to be "professional quality," whatever the hell that means. To me, it sounds like nothing more than an arbitrary advertising label.

But if all they were excited about where the pretty colors and C-list actors, then this whole thing comes off as really silly, if not entirely hypocritical.

I keep thinking about people making these kinds of thing using professional quality as a way of saying it's going to be good. That really doesn't work, because there a lot of professional movies and TV shows that are total shit, and at the same time there's amateur stuff that's great.

I noticed up thread someone said that they are taking donations directly through the Axanar website, are they doing it through a third party or are you giving your credit card information directly to the Axanar producers? If it's the second one I would never do that in a million years.

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

Wait a minute, I'm confused!

If it's the cart AND the car before the horse, where does the goat fit in?

In the trunk.

 

[oswriter]

Is Peters likely capable, on the basis of his own background, of filing some kind of motion for delay?

The court posted the formal return of service today. Peters and Axanar actually have until January 21 to file an answer.

 

[oswriter]

Also, we have standing instructions from Judge Klausner regarding the conduct of litigation in his courtroom. Nothing terribly interesting here, unless you collect information on the preferred font sizes of federal judges. :-)

 

[SuperSpaceMan]

Also, we have standing instructions from Judge Klausner regarding the conduct of litigation in his courtroom. Nothing terribly interesting here, unless you collect information on the preferred font sizes of federal judges. :-)

I dunno... Judge Klausner sounds like a by the book, buttoned down individual....

 

[Campe]

The court posted the formal return of service today. Peters and Axanar actually have until January 21 to file an answer.

Wouldn't 21 days from the date of service actually be Wednesday the 20th? (I've been saying Tuesday elsewhere. My mistake.)

 

[oswriter]

Wouldn't 21 days from the date of service actually be Wednesday the 20th? (I've been saying Tuesday elsewhere. My mistake.)

It appears Axanar and Peters individually were served on different days. Axanar was served on December 30th, Peters on December 31st. So yes, Axanar must respond by the 20th and Peters by the 21st.