Exactly. And I don’t care who you are, how published you are, how long you’ve been doing it, etc. — sometimes the words just don’t come to you. Or they do and they aren’t anything fit to be shown to an editor.

She’s probably looking out for the family bank account and their children’s future inheritence. If this goes badly in criminal court, her testimony will be on record and the civil claimants and their lawyers will take Bill to the cleaners (which I hope they do).

Disappointing, but expected. I wish the show wouldn’t spoil the books, but it seems inevitable.

Where on earth did this “if it’s not for profit, it’s fair use” idea come from, anyway? I’ve seen a lot more people parroting that line in the past couple of years than I ever saw in the past (and I’ve been following fanfic/fan film/fan whatever communities since the mid-1990s), and I’m just a bit floored by it. I’ve…

They are not “technically in the clear” by avoiding profit. Copyright infringement exists even if no profit is made, and this production never fell under any fair-use protection.

Most Star Trek fans have no idea Axanar exists.

Stop trying to make movies to things you don’t own. Spend that energy, time, effort and money on your own creation and be rewarded for it. I'm sure there will be people who are disappointed and outraged, but no one should be surprised. The studio isn't the villain in this.

Nope - fuck ‘em.

Uh Fair Use has nothing to do with making money at all. Fair Use is a measure as to whether you have blatantly taken copyrighted material or ideas to use as your own or whether you have used it for a purpose that would either ‘transform’ them (change their meaning to a substantial degree) or critique/parody the…

“Fair Use” does not constitute legal permission to rape copyrighted characters and material.

Oh, well. I don’t have a problem with anyone protecting their copyright.