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summary_of_the_lawsuit [2016/09/26 00:00] – [Copyrights at Issue] correx typo Carlos Pedrazasummary_of_the_lawsuit [2018/11/06 18:44] (current) – [Damages] Carlos Pedraza
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 <wrap lo>**VETERAN SCIFI** actors [[Kate Vernon]] and [[Tony Todd]] appeared in the short film, //Prelude to Axanar//. Todd has since dropped out from //Axanar,// citing the production's 'accountability' problems.</wrap> <wrap lo>**VETERAN SCIFI** actors [[Kate Vernon]] and [[Tony Todd]] appeared in the short film, //Prelude to Axanar//. Todd has since dropped out from //Axanar,// citing the production's 'accountability' problems.</wrap>
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 == Star Trek: Axanar == == Star Trek: Axanar ==
-[{{ :locked-script.jpg?250|**LOCKED SCRIPT** The supposed "fully revised, best Star Trek movie script ever" is displayed by the screenwriters and director of //Axanar// in August 2015.}}]+[{{ :locked-script.jpg?250|**LOCKED SCRIPT** The supposed "fully revised, [[locked_script|best Star Trek movie]] script ever" is displayed by the screenwriters and director of //Axanar// in August 2015.}}]
  
 //Axanar// is a feature-length motion picture funded on the [[axanar_kickstarter_details|Kickstarter]] and [[axanar_indiegogo_details|Indiegogo]] [[crowdfunding platforms]].((Paramount et al., v. Axanar et al., amended complaint, p. 7 ¶31.)) //Axanar// is a feature-length motion picture funded on the [[axanar_kickstarter_details|Kickstarter]] and [[axanar_indiegogo_details|Indiegogo]] [[crowdfunding platforms]].((Paramount et al., v. Axanar et al., amended complaint, p. 7 ¶31.))
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   * //Axanar// has already begun production, with release of the "[[Vulcan Scene]]" in 2015, and at least one other scene shot.((Paramount et al., v. Axanar et al., amended complaint, p. 7 ¶32, 34.))   * //Axanar// has already begun production, with release of the "[[Vulcan Scene]]" in 2015, and at least one other scene shot.((Paramount et al., v. Axanar et al., amended complaint, p. 7 ¶32, 34.))
   * Peters, with the possible aid of some Doe defendants, wrote the //Axanar// Script in its several versions.((Paramount et al., v. Axanar et al., amended complaint, p. 7 ¶33.))   * Peters, with the possible aid of some Doe defendants, wrote the //Axanar// Script in its several versions.((Paramount et al., v. Axanar et al., amended complaint, p. 7 ¶33.))
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 +<wrap lo>//See also: [[locked_script|The 'Locked' Axanar Screenplay: A Review]]//</wrap>
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   * Doe defendants directed the film, created the sets and designed the costumes. Certain of the unnamed defendants continue to work on the screenplay, even though the production declared in August 2015 they had "fully revised and locked" the script," calling it "the best Star Trek movie script ever!"((Paramount et al., v. Axanar et al., amended complaint, p. 8 ¶35-36.))   * Doe defendants directed the film, created the sets and designed the costumes. Certain of the unnamed defendants continue to work on the screenplay, even though the production declared in August 2015 they had "fully revised and locked" the script," calling it "the best Star Trek movie script ever!"((Paramount et al., v. Axanar et al., amended complaint, p. 8 ¶35-36.))
   * The "Vulcan Scene" has already been disseminated online on the Axanar website and YouTube,((Paramount et al., v. Axanar et al., amended complaint, p. 9 ¶39.)) though the video has since been removed from public view.(([[timeline|Axanar Timeline: February 8, 2016]].))   * The "Vulcan Scene" has already been disseminated online on the Axanar website and YouTube,((Paramount et al., v. Axanar et al., amended complaint, p. 9 ¶39.)) though the video has since been removed from public view.(([[timeline|Axanar Timeline: February 8, 2016]].))
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 What's different about Axanar is that its multi-million dollar budget was completely intended to be raised from Star Trek fans, using the appeal of the studios' copyrighted property. Unlike Axanar‭, ‬there's no money in the other fan films for CBS to go after‭. ‬In addition‭, ‬Axanar's‭ [[Annual Report]] detailed an extensive and expanding [[fan_films_breaking_the_unwritten_rules_and_defining_profit|commercial operation]] trading off the studios‭' [[Star Trek]] intellectual property. What's different about Axanar is that its multi-million dollar budget was completely intended to be raised from Star Trek fans, using the appeal of the studios' copyrighted property. Unlike Axanar‭, ‬there's no money in the other fan films for CBS to go after‭. ‬In addition‭, ‬Axanar's‭ [[Annual Report]] detailed an extensive and expanding [[fan_films_breaking_the_unwritten_rules_and_defining_profit|commercial operation]] trading off the studios‭' [[Star Trek]] intellectual property.
  
-Attorney Gershen-Siegel, points to the scale of Axanar's fundraising:+Attorney Gershen-Siegel points to the scale of Axanar's fundraising:
  
 > The money is certainly a factor; Axanar has a deeper pocket than the other [fan] productions do. Making a profit or crowdfunding are not necessarily dispositive of anything here, but the money does lend credence to the idea of this being more than a mere fan film. Despite whatever it has been called or will be called, the budget numbers are close to other independent releases. \\ \\ Continually referring to themselves as an ‘independent production’ could not have helped matters. Working with [actor [[cast|Gary Graham]]] to reprise his actual canon role [as Vulcan ambassador [[Soval]]] was another problem area.((Janet Gershen-Siegel post, [[http://www.gandtshow.com/fan-dance-sound-fury-and-axanar/|"Fan Dance — Sound, Fury and Axanar]], G&T Show website, 1/21/16.)) > The money is certainly a factor; Axanar has a deeper pocket than the other [fan] productions do. Making a profit or crowdfunding are not necessarily dispositive of anything here, but the money does lend credence to the idea of this being more than a mere fan film. Despite whatever it has been called or will be called, the budget numbers are close to other independent releases. \\ \\ Continually referring to themselves as an ‘independent production’ could not have helped matters. Working with [actor [[cast|Gary Graham]]] to reprise his actual canon role [as Vulcan ambassador [[Soval]]] was another problem area.((Janet Gershen-Siegel post, [[http://www.gandtshow.com/fan-dance-sound-fury-and-axanar/|"Fan Dance — Sound, Fury and Axanar]], G&T Show website, 1/21/16.))