Entertainment & Sports
May 20, 2016
Will 'Star Trek' fan film live long and prosper?
With the crowd-funded movie still in development, the less its producers borrow from the authorized works, the more likely they will avoid copyright infringement liability. By Todd Bonder
With the salacious Sumner Redstone soap opera having now played itself out in Los Angeles probate court, another Viacom-related courtroom drama is airing up the street in federal court. Having been stunned, first by Viacom's Paramount and CBS studios firing off a lawsuit for copyright infringement, followed by the district court's denial, with phaser-like precision, of their motion to dismiss, the creators of the $1 million Kicksta...
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