I was thinking of the whole Axanar thing and it made me think of The DS9 episode Valiant with cadet turned captain Tim Watters leads his crew Red Squad (cadets) on some successful missions till he bites off more than he can chew and leads the crew on a suicide mission destroying the valiant. Thoughts!
CBS/Paramount sues to stop Axanar
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Did someone say "Cash"?
Neil
Never. Gets. Old. Still makes me laugh.
"...enlightened enough to understand the benefits of that." Hahahahah. No, Alec. There is no benefit to CBS to license AXANAR. They're actually making legit Trek. They don't need your fanwanky story of a starship captain no one really wanted to know more about.
poor studios are just too dumb to realize what an enlightened, cost effective business model they could adopt
1. let someone else develop all the backstories and all the productions to establish them
2. let someone else do all the marketing for a half century
3. let someone else build the prestige of the stars and the roles
4. operate your hundreds-of-shows tens-of-thousands of employees business off of fan donations
5. use donated/minimally compensated time from industry professionals
6. sell other companies' products without a license. sublicense other companies' products without a license
7. never actually produce a product but instead forever set higher goals which just happen to divert the funding into assets for your business goals separate from what the backers paid for; and use a backing mechanism that will return no profit or ownership to underwriters, while also making it difficult to legally object
8. play the long game really well. piss off industry giant owners of entertainment IP, wave sushi in the face of their lawsuits. tell them nothing can have copyright protection because everything is made of atoms, and besides, true fans who get up two hours after their bedtime to watch the work are thereby exempt from any IP laws. respond to publicly offered settlement and goodwill from high levels by counter-suing. piss off your professional staff and talent to the point they quit and repudiate your operation in public. manage your business so well your PR person has to say no one has a clue what's what in your finances, and administer your staff so well that your mailing list overwhelms your professional resources year after year
9. pay your management salaries/fees out of the poached market value of others' work
10. declare that what you have done is your copyrighted property, and income from what you do is yours to pocket in perpetuity. say the owner should buy it/contract you/distribute you for free... until you are sued... then offer a free sublicense to the owner as a concession.
DENY EVERYTHING.
OOOOOOMMMMMM let us meditate on enlightenment...
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"Frankly, they are just stupid not enough to understand the benefits of that"
I did what PJ White asked me to do and now the sentence makes no sense.
Because calling people stupid is the easiest, best, and far and away the most reliable way to get them to do something for you.
I thought it was offering an on-screen rank of Captain and above...
I can't help but think that CBS should have waited until everything was finished--then, if the story was good--then interject.
Healthsouth was going to build a digital hospital--which was set back when the Feds went after the CEO.
http://www.bhamwiki.com/w/HealthSouth_digital_hospital
http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2009/06/us_attorney_alice_martin_of_bi.html
Healthsouth was going to build a digital hospital--which was set back when the Feds went after the CEO.
http://www.bhamwiki.com/w/HealthSouth_digital_hospital
http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2009/06/us_attorney_alice_martin_of_bi.html
Problem is, Axanar has shown they've been incapable of finishing anything related to the feature. Paramount/CBS prevented Peters from continuing to fleece his donors to fund his for-profit studio using IP that wasn't his. They had every right to step in, give a resounding NO, and put a stop to it.
Thats the worst part of this whole fiasco - He could have produced an above average fan film, at the level of some of the other stuff we've seen, on the budget he had, and had it released well over a year ago....kept everyone happy... and avoided this entire mess....
This NEEDS to go to trial...........anything less will leave Saint Alec playing the martyr & bloviating for all eternity.........
IIRC, Axanar had claimed that NV offered the use of their sets (which probably could have been slightly redressed or digitally altered if need be) and AP decided to build a studio in SoCal instead, claiming that it would be cheaper to make it in Hollywood rather than fly everyone to upstate NY, food, hotels etc.
Now I'm wondering if there was more to that story?
While LFIM made some sense there RE: expenses, when this offer was made could alter the commonly held perception that his delusions of fortune & glory began after the money started rolling in. Instead, building a studio & such could have been his goal right from the start (his delusions becoming clearer only after raking in substantial donations) - something I'm sure C/P's counsel would delve into........
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I really hope that Summer Redstone's last act on earth will be to punch Alec Peters in the face.
I'd pay $6.99 a month to watch that.
That would break the internet..........(or this forum thread at least)
Total BS!
STC has been flying everyone out to Georgia for years and producing episodes for about 50-80K per (including travel, hotel, transportation and food). AP wanted a studio so he made up the "cheaper to build a studio in SoCal (right) then to fly out to NY nonsense
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