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 <wrap lo>**//Main story: [[tardigrade_lawsuit|Indie Gamemaker Sues 'Discovery' for Stealing His Ideas]] \\ <wrap lo>**//Main story: [[tardigrade_lawsuit|Indie Gamemaker Sues 'Discovery' for Stealing His Ideas]] \\
-See also: [[tardigrade_lawsuit_trouble|Tardigrades Copyright Lawsuit Gets off to Rocky Start]]//**</wrap>+See also: [[tardigrade_lawsuit_trouble|Tardigrades Copyright Lawsuit Gets off to Rocky Start]]// and //[[tardigrades_pre_motion|CBS Asks Judge to Dismiss Copyright Case Against Discovery]]//**</wrap>
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 CBS and Netflix were due to file their answer November 6 but agreed to wait for Abdin to amend his [[tardigrade_lawsuit|original legal complaint]] against them for a second time. Accordingly, U.S. district [[Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald]] extended the time to respond to November 25. CBS and Netflix were due to file their answer November 6 but agreed to wait for Abdin to amend his [[tardigrade_lawsuit|original legal complaint]] against them for a second time. Accordingly, U.S. district [[Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald]] extended the time to respond to November 25.
  
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 <wrap lo><wrap em>DOWNLOAD</wrap> the 16-page, second amended {{ ::abdin_v_cbs_2_amended.pdf |legal complaint}}, filed October 29, 2018, alleging copyright infringement in //Star Trek: Discovery// by CBS and Netflix of plaintiff Anas Abdin's unreleased videogame, "Tardigrades."</wrap> <wrap lo><wrap em>DOWNLOAD</wrap> the 16-page, second amended {{ ::abdin_v_cbs_2_amended.pdf |legal complaint}}, filed October 29, 2018, alleging copyright infringement in //Star Trek: Discovery// by CBS and Netflix of plaintiff Anas Abdin's unreleased videogame, "Tardigrades."</wrap>
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 Johnson also pointed to a number of exhibits attached to the amended complaint. The exhibits consisted of news articles about the Tardigrades game, its relationship to //Discovery// and documents Abdin said he had posted publicly describing his game before the Star Trek series aired, all of which he claimed //Discovery//'s producers had access to years before. Johnson also pointed to a number of exhibits attached to the amended complaint. The exhibits consisted of news articles about the Tardigrades game, its relationship to //Discovery// and documents Abdin said he had posted publicly describing his game before the Star Trek series aired, all of which he claimed //Discovery//'s producers had access to years before.
  
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 <wrap lo>**COPYRIGHT CERTIFICATE** The copyright registration listed in the U.S. Copyright Office's database for Anas Abdin's Tardigrades refers to Tardigrades as "text, artwork," not a videogame.</wrap> \\ [{{::tardigrades_copyright.jpg?direct|<fs x-small>//Source: U.S. Copyright Office//</fs>}}] <wrap lo>**COPYRIGHT CERTIFICATE** The copyright registration listed in the U.S. Copyright Office's database for Anas Abdin's Tardigrades refers to Tardigrades as "text, artwork," not a videogame.</wrap> \\ [{{::tardigrades_copyright.jpg?direct|<fs x-small>//Source: U.S. Copyright Office//</fs>}}]
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 <fs smaller>The lawsuit also alleges //Discovery// copied white medical uniforms from Tardigrades: "The Star Trek series has not used any uniform styled, or colored in this manner, until [Tardigrades] was published."</fs>(([[https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/25398554/Abdin_v_CBS_Broadcasting,_Inc_et_al|U.S. District Court Southern District of New York, civil docket for case # 1:18-cv-07543]], Abdin v. CBS Broadcasting, Inc. et al., document 24-1, p. 6 ¶18, 10/29/18.)) <fs smaller>The lawsuit also alleges //Discovery// copied white medical uniforms from Tardigrades: "The Star Trek series has not used any uniform styled, or colored in this manner, until [Tardigrades] was published."</fs>(([[https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/25398554/Abdin_v_CBS_Broadcasting,_Inc_et_al|U.S. District Court Southern District of New York, civil docket for case # 1:18-cv-07543]], Abdin v. CBS Broadcasting, Inc. et al., document 24-1, p. 6 ¶18, 10/29/18.))
  
-[{{::tardigrades_medical_uniform.jpg?direct|**MEDICAL UNIFORMS** Despite the lawsuit's claim //Discovery// copied Tardigrades' white medical uniform, similar Starfleet medical uniforms appeared in //Star Trek// (2009) and as far back as //Star Trek: The Motion Picture// (1979), predating Tardigrades. <wrap indent><fs smaller>(//Images 1 and 2/from Abdin lawsuit, Exhibit B; Images 3 and 4/Paramount Pictures//)</fs></wrap>}}]+[{{::tardigrades_medical_uniform.jpg?direct|**MEDICAL UNIFORMS** Despite the lawsuit's claim //Discovery// copied Tardigrades' white medical uniform, similar Starfleet medical uniforms appeared in //Star Trek// (2009) and as far back as //Star Trek: The Motion Picture// (1979), predating Tardigrades. <wrap indent><fs smaller>(//Images 1 and 2/Exhibit B, Abdin lawsuit; Images 3 and 4/Paramount Pictures//)</fs></wrap>}}]
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