Judge: Star Trek fanfic creators must face CBS, Paramount copyright lawsuit:   
      
   "On Monday, a Los Angeles-based US District Court judge ruled that Axanar    
   Productions, a crowd-funded Star Trek fanfiction production company, would   
   have    
   to face a copyright infringement lawsuit (PDF) from CBS and Paramount, which    
   own the rights to the Star Trek TV and film franchise.   
      
   Suit cites Warp Drive, Klingon High Council, Uniform with Gold Shirt, more.   
   In a blog post about the upcoming trial dates, leader of Axanar Productions    
   Alec Peters seemed undeterred by the news, writing, "I am happy to say our    
   trial got moved up to January 31, 2017... That means, we could win this case    
   and have Axanar back in production in March, 2017. Yes, we will finish Axanar!"   
      
   Axanar Productions, which has already produced a short film called Prelude to    
   Axanar and has plans to make a high-quality feature film simply called Axanar,    
   argued in its motion to dismiss that CBS and Paramount's copyright   
   infringement    
   claims are too vague. The production company also contended that some of CBS    
   and Paramount's claimed copyrighted elements, including costumes, the   
   Starfleet    
   insignia, the Klingon language, and the “mood or theme” of Star Trek, were   
   not    
   protected by copyright law."   
      
   See:   
      
   http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/05/judge-star-trek-fanfi   
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