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Paramount Drops Lawsuit Against Axanar

 

 

Paramount finally admitted that the lawsuit against the makers of Prelude to Axanar for copyright infringement was idiotic and is in the process of dropping it.

 

At last night’s Star Trek fan event, the latest trailer for Star Trek Beyond wasn’t the only newsworthy event: J.J. Abrams, announced that Paramount Pictures’ lawsuit against Axanar Productions was “going away.”

Speaking at the fan event, Abrams noted that Star Trek Beyond’s director, Justin Lin, was outraged at the legal situation that had arisen: “Justin was sort of outraged by this as a longtime fan. We started talking about it and realized this wasn’t an appropriate way to deal with the fans. The fans of Star Trek are part of this world.”

Lin had a direct role in helping to end the lawsuit: “[Justin] went to the studio and pushed them stop this lawsuit, and now, within the next few weeks, it will be announced that this is going away, and that fans would be able to continue working on their project.”

Go here to read the rest.  The lawsuit was stupidity on stilts.  The Axanar people in their Prelude video produced some of the best Star Trek ever seen.  Instead of trying to squelch the production, the Paramount people should have offered to fund the film and gone into partnership with the Axanar people.  Litigation should always be a last resort and Paramount now has an alienated fan base for not remembering that maxim.

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Thomas Collins
Thomas Collins
Sunday, May 22, AD 2016 2:10pm

If we had any kind of sensible copyright laws Star Trek would be in the public domain by now but Congress is in the entertainment industry’s pocket.

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