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- | /* <WRAP right round info 50%> | + | ====== Axanar Aiming for Appeals Court Victory ====== |
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+ | //Are Defense Lawyers Assuming a Loss Before District Judge Klausner?// | ||
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+ | While preparing for his copyright infringement trial, Alec Peters told attendees of a virtual scifi conference his lawyers are already aiming for an appellate court victory, and that he is prepared to transform the format of //Axanar// to make it fall within copyright' | ||
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+ | ===== Questions and Answers ===== | ||
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+ | //**__« Even if we were to lose at trial, an appeal would likely be very positive for us. »__**// — //Alec Peters, Axanar producer// | ||
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+ | ==== Precedent-Setting Case ==== | ||
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+ | Given his attorneys' | ||
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+ | > This case is being held in Southern California, and if it gets appealed it'll get appealed to the [[wp> | ||
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**What is Second Life?** \\ | **What is Second Life?** \\ | ||
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The event in which Peters appeared for a virtual question-and-answer session was the "Trek for a Cure" Faire, sponsored by the [[https:// | The event in which Peters appeared for a virtual question-and-answer session was the "Trek for a Cure" Faire, sponsored by the [[https:// | ||
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- | ===== Other Projects ===== | + | <wrap lo>//See also: [[http:// |
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+ | That interpretation of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals' | ||
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+ | === Killing Fan Films === | ||
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+ | Several of the questions centered on CBS and Paramount' | ||
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+ | ==== Fair Use ==== | ||
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+ | One questioner asked how Axanar could be sued if it was being produced without intending to profit. Peters | ||
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+ | - What is purpose and character of the use, including whether the use is of a commercial nature or of nonprofit or educational purposes? | ||
+ | - What is the nature of the use, such as whether it is transformative, | ||
+ | - What amount of the original work used? Peters claimed Axanar "uses a very, very tiny portion of the copyrighted work of Star Trek." | ||
+ | - What is the effect of the use on the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work? | ||
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+ | Of the four factors, Peters assessed Axanar against only the third, stating Axanar infringed upon only a "tiny portion" | ||
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+ | === Side-by-Side Comparisons === | ||
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+ | The [[summary_of_the_lawsuit|legal complaint]] spent 28 pages detailing alleged copyright infringements by running side-by-side comparisons of copyrighted [[summary_of_the_lawsuit# | ||
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+ | The lawsuit noted Axanar took even more copyrighted elements, and that Peters intended //Prelude to Axanar// and //Axanar// to be prequels to the Original series, making them unauthorized derivative works, unlicensed by either CBS or Paramount.((Paramount et al., v. Axanar et al., amended complaint, p. 38 ¶48-51.)) | ||
+ | ==== Transforming ' | ||
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+ | Asked how the outcome of the lawsuit might affect //Axanar//, Peters confirmed rumors that he and director [[Robert Meyer Burnett]] may change the way they tell the story of [[mema> | ||
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+ | > One of the things we're hoping to do is make more episodes of //The Four Years War//, which is the documentary series that we made //Prelude to Axanar// in. … It's quite possible we'll take the movie script and make it in the four episodes of //The Four Years War//. | ||
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+ | //Prelude// styled itself as "Part III" of a mockumentary, | ||
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+ | Peters and Burnett have previously floated the idea that, produced as a fictional documentary, | ||
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+ | ==== The Quality Argument ==== | ||
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+ | The moderator repeated the often-heard but inaccurate notion that CBS and Paramount sued Axanar because it was too good, and asked Peters if that was true. Peters replied that //Axanar// itself had yet to be produced but that he was proud of the production values in //Prelude// and in the two-minute " | ||
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+ | > Understand, of course, that we haven' | ||
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+ | Peters neglected to mention, however, that after the lawsuit was filed in December 2015, he removed the Vulcan Scene from the Indiegogo [[https:// | ||
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+ | The only publicly available copy of the [[yout> | ||
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+ | ==== Further Fundraising ==== | ||
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+ | One questioner wondered whether Peters needed to use any of its donors' | ||
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+ | > At some point I'm sure there will be a fundraiser just for incidental costs.(([[yout> | ||
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+ | Peters also encouraged one supporter to give him money using the Axanar website' | ||
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+ | ==== Casting ' | ||
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+ | Peters described how he cast so many well-known scifi actors in //Prelude to Axanar//, starting with Richard Hatch (// | ||
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+ | Todd, of course, [[tony_todd|dropped the project]] a year before amid public concerns about Peters' | ||
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+ | ===== Future | ||
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+ | Prevented from producing //Axanar//, Peters told attendees he had "four or five different projects we're working on," mostly with new directors. He mentioned: | ||
+ | * One project with "a rather famous science fiction writer whom you all know." Curiously, he did not mention David Gerrold by name, even though he had repeatedly [[yout> | ||
+ | * "The Battle for Axanar," | ||
- | Prevented from producing //Axanar//, Peters told attendees he was working on "four or five different projects we're working on," mostly with new directors. He mentioned that one of the projects was with "a rather famous science fiction writer whom you all know." Curiously, he did not mention David Gerrold by name, even though he had repeatedly [[yout> | + | ---- |
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