CBS sues to stop Star Trek fanfic movie

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**CBS Suddenly Wants to Put a Stop to Axanar, the Crowdfunded Star Trek War Movie

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*Axanar *has attracted a lot of attention since its hugely successful Kickstarter and Indiegogo campaigns raised over a million dollars to make a movie set decades before the events of the original Star Trek series. But after over a year of tolerating the film’s existence, CBS and Paramount have cracked down.
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Axanar promised to be a lavish independent production, a movie that looked at the early days of the Federation’s conflict with the Klingon Empire in the years before the original Star Trek television series and that culminated in a bloody battle at the titular planet of Axanar. The story was uncovered ground in CBS’s official Star Trek work in both movies or live-action television. Meanwhile, CBS not only had a long-standing reputation of embracing the Star Trek fan film community and their projects but had also met with Axanar executive producer Alec Peters in recent months to confirm that, as long as the new film wasn’t made for commercial purposes, CBS was fine with it.
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This seems rather silly on CBS’s part, I can’t see how they are being harmed. Quite the reverse.

Of course if our copyright laws made any sense Star Trek would already be in the public domain.
 
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…profits are a dish best served cold! Bwaaaaaaaaaahaaaaaaa!
 
With all of the fan-made Star Trek series in the last 18 years, you would think they’d get the hint…
 
This is very ironic. CBS originally turned down Star Trek in favor of Lost in Space.

It was NBC that picked up the series.
 
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