Judge: Star Trek fanfic creators must face CBS, Paramount copyright lawsuit
Found on Ars Technica on Tuesday, 10 May 2016
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!"
In another blog post, Peters wrote that Axanar Productions is trying to settle with CBS and Paramount "so we can move forward with telling the story of AXANAR in a way that satisfies both the studios and the over ten thousand fans who financially supported our project.”
Sue the fans and stiffle their creativity and, in the long run, their interest in the series. That's not really a good idea.