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Historically, the Star Trek copyrights haven't been enforced very strongly. It's why they allowed so many fan projects to go ahead (and Star Trek has a great fa
by troymc 15y ago
Historically, the Star Trek copyrights haven't been enforced very strongly. It's why they allowed so many fan projects to go ahead (and Star Trek has a great fan base). Maybe CBS got new lawyers who aren't familiar with 40 years of de facto policies?
(This isn't a trademark issue where CBS has to defend the trademark or risk losing it. It's a copyright issue; the reason the Tricorder app vanished is that CBS sent a DMCA takedown notice to its creator [Moonblink]).
- metachris 15y ago> It's a copyright issue; the reason the Tricorder app vanished is that CBS sent a DMCA takedown notice to its creator [Moonblink] That's incorrect -- CBS sent a DMCA takedown notice to Google, which took down the app and notified the author afterwards.
- troymc 15y agoAh, thanks for the correction.