Secondly it seems the Axanar lawsuit is back on.
Seems the guy in charge of Axanar can't stop being a dick.
Can they make STContinues official instead ?
Apparently they never actually dropped the lawsuit, but they were trying to settle it out of court. But the Axanar crew are idiots, and they deserve to get their asses run into the ground.
Star Trek Continues is the perfect example of how to run a fan film all around. Nothing but class and quality.
So...Blob....care to summarize this stuff? I looked up the lawsuit, but I don't see why the Axanar guys are such douche bags. Insight pwease?
Well the lawsuit itself is mostly related to the standard IP stuff.
The reason they're douchebags is because they crowdfunded over a million dollars for their fan film so they could all get salaries for their work, and purchase a large studio to start their own scifi franchise, directly profiting off Star Trek's IP, and on social media they've done nothing but bag the shit out of Star Trek and talk about how much better their fan film is. After the lawsuit started, they made a rant about how they were only being sued because Axanar had the superior product and they didn't want competition, and claimed they were going to win the lawsuit with the best lawyers, and I think they even tried to counter sue, and in defense of the lawsuit itself, claimed their fan film didn't even resemble Star Trek's trademarks.
Basically, CBS/Paramount have been incredibly lenient with people crowdfunding fan film as long as there's transparency that it's all going directly towards equipment/supplies to make the film, and no profit is being made, and Axanar flagrantly disregarded that to profit from it, then bit the hand that feeds them.
Also, the guy in charge apparently has a long history of dodgy shit.