Maybe this was the cupcake Alec offered:
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Hendorff_(alternate_reality)
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Hendorff_(alternate_reality)
CBS/Paramount sues to stop Axanar
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Axanar Defense Response to Plaintiffs’ Request for Ex Parte Relief blog post went up yesterday:
http://www.semanticshenanigans.com/axanar-defense-response-plaintiffs-ex-parte/
Analysis of Plaintiff's Motion for Summary Judgment will go up on the 28th and at some point we will get out the blog and YT from our last show (recorded on the 21st). I will work on the Defense Motion for Summary Judgment blog post, but wifi is spotty where my folks live, and I really do want to spend time with 'em. So please forgive any delays.
Thank you, as always, for your kind support.
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Axanar Defense Response to Plaintiffs’ Request for Ex Parte Relief blog post went up yesterday:
http://www.semanticshenanigans.com/axanar-defense-response-plaintiffs-ex-parte/
Analysis of Plaintiff's Motion for Summary Judgment will go up on the 28th and at some point we will get out the blog and YT from our last show (recorded on the 21st). I will work on the Defense Motion for Summary Judgment blog post, but wifi is spotty where my folks live, and I really do want to spend time with 'em. So please forgive any delays.
Thank you, as always, for your kind support.
Take note of Jenkins' interviews with Rebecca Tushnet of the Organization for Transformative Works. I suspect LFIM will engage Tushnet and OTW folks to help him in a future Ninth Circuit appeal.
I only skimmed the articles because I should be getting ready to go to work, but the articles don't necessarily apply to Axanar, unless you believe that Axanar is a fan film and was never intended as an independent professional production to be trademarked, merchandised, sold to CBS or Netflix or Amazon, etc. I may not believe much of what the people behind Axanar say, but I'm willing to believe that they thought of Axanar as something more than just another fan film, and I think that's why CBS/P went after them in particular.
Propworx had real costs like paying for a warehouse, making catalogs, getting the items from studios etc. Also Alec and staff had to be paid. The mix of expenses is interesting but clearly it failed as a stand alone biz. As a biz without rent - less overhead - maybe marginally ok.
What I don't understand is why consigners give merchandise to Propworx after they failed to pay MGM (Stargate) over $300k.
What I don't understand is why consigners give merchandise to Propworx after they failed to pay MGM (Stargate) over $300k.
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He is a named defendant, so it's quite possible.
Isn't Friday Anti-Axanar day?
Isn't that every day?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe @carlosp interviewed Mr. Jenkins at length about the Axanar case and the Star Trek fan film guidelines earlier this year.
Jenkins has been fetishizing fan activity for the entirety of his academic career, so it's no surprise to me that he would, at least initially, come out in favor of Axanar and Alec Peters. Don't get me started on his more recent shilling for the studios on the subject of "convergence culture." (Ironic, isn't it?)
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So I have a question...
Even if Peters does an "independent review" of Axanar finances, the court isn't likely to accept it, is it? They would want a review by someone agreeable to both CBS and Peters to go over the Axanar books? Or do they appoint a third party to review them? And there would have to be evidence (receipts) to back up what Peters is claiming?
Even if Peters does an "independent review" of Axanar finances, the court isn't likely to accept it, is it? They would want a review by someone agreeable to both CBS and Peters to go over the Axanar books? Or do they appoint a third party to review them? And there would have to be evidence (receipts) to back up what Peters is claiming?
Yeah, which is why I figured the odds of getting it wrong was low.
Discovery is concluded - so yeah baring any intervention from the Judge (and it would have to be something big) - the financials submitted during Discovery by both sides is what will be used/argued at trial.
The only other time Axanar and Alec Peters current (ie post Discovery phase) financial situation will be relevant is if CBS/Paramount receives a monetary damages award - then they are able to look a Axanar's and Alec Peter's full/current financial situation so they can get whatever has been awarded - but the case isn't at that point yet.
Would that even matter? History (Propworx) has shown when money is due, he'll find a loophole.
My impression was that since it would have zero legal standing for the court case, it is purely a PR spin exercise to get an alternative narrative on the table. These days, one has to allow "equal time" even when one of the persons arguing is saying CO2 can't change climate because the other side of the flat earth is all forest.
Boom, it all makes sense now. Classic Alec Peters. That would be why he repeatedly states he hasn't spent a dime of donor money on personal expenses he has ,instead, splurged mightily on income he perceives as his.
Now that is a con-man at work.
And this is why free press, and the freedom to investigate is a luxury we shouldn't take for granted, even on small issues like a Star Trek fan-film (a small issue with a big amount of money attached to it).
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"income he perceives as his." That makes so much sense to me.
LMAO!
I know. That so doesn't make sense to me.
I know, right.
'Unbiased' is the third word I've seen used by the defendant that I don't think means what he thinks it means. Then there's 'Transparency' and 'Minions'.
The reason I'm now including minions is because of the use of the happy delightful movie minions the defendant & some of the supporter/advocates call the supporter/advocates. Even to proudly wearing Axanar Minion t-shirts. Which, though a bootleg unlicensed use of now another company's IP, is cute. "Donors are like Minions, we love you all!"
And 'minions' most recently being used by the defendant when he labeled people unsupportive of the production 'minions of C/P.' Which make no sense at all since I've noticed that many posters unsupportive of this production have no qualms at all about being highhhhhllllyyy critical of C/P when there is something in Star Trek we don't like.
'Minion' as applied to people, being more like a mindless automaton, is not a match for C/P&non-supporters of this production. And I'm sure the supporter/advocates are thinking of the happy delightful movie minions rather than what the word actually means.
So I do not think 'unbiased' or 'transparency' or 'minions' means what the defendant thinks they mean.
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