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Article: Axanar "CBS/Paramount still haven't provided evidence"

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    #1
    Posted Thu 31 Mar, 2016 7:23 PM
    You can view the article at https://ufplanets.com/content.php?755-Axanar-lawsuit
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    Posted Thu 31 Mar, 2016 9:30 PM
    Definitely some interesting arguments. Some may lead to a slippery slope of "we don't really want to go down there". Like the UN suing CBS and Paramount for Copyright infringement on their Logo? Others may not go so favorably for Axanar and they will have to pay CBS/Paramount. Not sure if going with the legal tricky is the way to win this.

    Hopefully, some agreement can be reached and Axanar (and other fan productions) can move forward with creating some new and original Star Trek stories. I am not sure how the who Star Wars Expanded Universe worked in regards to any of those stories/ideas got the "greenlight" from Lucas. But in the absence of movies/TV series, the Expanded Universe kept Star Wars pretty well alive and active. Which I saw as a good thing.
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    Posted Thu 31 Mar, 2016 9:35 PM
    Originally Posted by Silynn
    I am not sure how the who Star Wars Expanded Universe worked in regards to any of those stories/ideas got the "greenlight" from Lucas. But in the absence of movies/TV series, the Expanded Universe kept Star Wars pretty well alive and active. Which I saw as a good thing.
    Yeah with Star Wars (whilst it was owned by Lucas) everything that was official was basically canon, that meant Lucas basically had to greenlight everything, with Star Trek whilst books, comics, games etc have rules to stick within CBS and Paramount weren't as fussy because only the movies and live action TV shows were considered canon. Definitely different ways of handling things.
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    #4
    Posted Thu 31 Mar, 2016 11:10 PM
    We've had a Twitter response to this story but since I don't use Twitter I'll put it here. I also don't know how to embed Tweets so apologies.

    https://twitter.com/JamesNHams/statu...65501591044096

    So, the Klingon language is one of the items that CBS/Paramount have cited as an example of copyright infringement. The Klingon language is clearly something that was created for Star Trek and the Klingon Dictionary and other publications using the Klingon language have been officially licensed and are copyrighted works. Whilst constructed languages can apparently be copyrighted natural languages can not but there is very little in the way of legal history around the copyright status of a language.

    Klingon is a recognised language and has be used in a number of other television shows including Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Fraiser, How I Met Your Mother, The Big Bang Theory and The Simpsons. Does it's popularity and status change it from being constructed to natural? I'm no copyright lawyer so I don't have a clue but the copyright status of the Klingon language may be something that is further explored as part of this case.
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