Judge Rules Against Fan Version Of “Star Trek”

The movie project billed itself as a professional quality fan “Star Trek” project. “To the purpose and character of the use, the judge writes that Axanar attempts to “stay faithful” to the Star Trek canon with nary any criticism, seemingly shrugging off defendants’ arguments of staging a ‘mockumentary.’ To the nature of the copyrighted work, the judge writes that after 13 Star Trek motion pictures and six television series, these types of works “are given broad copyright protections.”

The Director And The Writer Of ‘Moonlight’ Grew Up In The Same Neighborhood And Circumstances, And Didn’t Meet Until Their 30s

“Barry Jenkins is compact, bald, bespectacled and bookishly handsome. Tarell Alvin McCraney is much taller, with an immaculately groomed beard and stylish green Adidas sneakers … Mr. Jenkins is straight; Mr. McCraney said he considers himself ‘gay-identified.’ Yet their childhood experiences were so similar, their lives so parallel, that you could mix up many facts of their biographies and they’d still be true.”