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+ | ====== Not Much Progress Toward Settlement ====== | ||
+ | [[CBS]] and [[Paramount Pictures]] don't appear willing to cede any kind of business arrangement that would allow //Axanar// to move forward, according to executive producer [[Alec Peters]]. | ||
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+ | In comments posted below Peters' | ||
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+ | Peters replied on August 14: | ||
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+ | > We have tried to make a deal and they will have no part of it.(([[http:// | ||
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+ | ===== ‘Logical, Money-making Solutions’ ===== | ||
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+ | This comment marked the first hint about a lack of progress in settlement talks between both sides in the [[copyright_infringement|copyright infringement]] [[lawsuit]] against Axanar. | ||
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+ | Two days later, Peters went further, hinting at a failed effort in negotiations to allow //Axanar// to be produced and would offer a financial incentive for CBS and Paramount presumably based on some kind of Axanar-related revenue stream: | ||
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+ | > We offered CBS //Axanar// for free 7 months ago, and they refused. They do not care about //Axanar// or what the fans want, and are not open to logical, money-making solutions. They are not working in their shareholders' | ||
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+ | Axanar has been criticized for having already created several continuing [[merchandise|revenue streams]], extensively detailed in Axanar' | ||
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+ | ==== No Specifics ==== | ||
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+ | Peters offered no specifics on the " | ||
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+ | ===== About Settlement Talks ===== | ||
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+ | Though the two sides likely had some communication after the suit was filed in December 2015, negotiations seemed to take on new life after the May 20, 2016, announcement at a //Star Trek Beyond// fan event, producer J.J. Abrams that the lawsuit was "going away" in a few weeks. | ||
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+ | Though widely misreported as CBS and Paramount dropping the suit, that possibility was nevertheless foreclosed one business day later by Axanar' | ||
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+ | ==== Going to Trial ==== | ||
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+ | Peters' | ||
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+ | > I think, unfortunately, | ||
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+ | <wrap lo>//See also: [[anatomy_of_the_case|Timeline of the Case]]//</ | ||
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+ | Meanwhile the case continued in [[discovery]], | ||
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