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Its because lawyers (of which there are already too many) need to have something to do to justify their salaries. They don't care if they hurt the franchise the
by teekert 8y ago
Its because lawyers (of which there are already too many) need to have something to do to justify their salaries. They don't care if they hurt the franchise they are "protecting". At this point I'd love for someone like Patrick Steward or LeVar Burton (very interesting guy with nice projects like LeVar Burton reads btw...) to drop some comments on Twitter about this nonsense.
These lawyers do nothing but hurt people that love Star Trek a lot and probably are among the franchise's best customers.
- bb611 8y agoA cease and desist letter is one billable hour. Writing a licensing agreement could easily be dozens of hours, and would still protect the company's IP equally well. This is a management decision, as it is for most media companies. The lawyers might even disagree with his strategy, that they wrote a C&D is no more indicative of their minds than an engineer's code. Professional execution doesn't imply agreement, just recognition of authority.
- Mediterraneo10 8y ago"At this point I'd love for someone like Patrick Steward or LeVar Burton ... to drop some comments on Twitter about this nonsense." I have heard rumours over the years that a lot of Star Trek actors are creeped out by the fan community. Some might hide those feelings so that they can get some nice income from the convention circuit, but could you really expect them to rush to support obsessive fans in a case like this?
- ConceptJunkie 8y agoWho hasn't met a Star Trek fan that creeped them out? That doesn't mean that the majority of fans are weird or bad people.