{"id":33913,"date":"2013-05-17T09:35:28","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T15:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/17\/squabbling-over-the-goose-that-lays-the-golden-eggs.html"},"modified":"2014-11-07T12:44:44","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T19:44:44","slug":"squabbling-over-the-goose-that-lays-the-golden-eggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/17\/squabbling-over-the-goose-that-lays-the-golden-eggs.html","title":{"rendered":"Squabbling over\u00a0the Goose that Lays the Golden Eggs"},"content":{"rendered":"
Legal wrangling over Star Trek<\/i> (Paramount owns the rights to the movies, but CBS owns all the TV shows as well as the\u00a0characters, which Paramount must then license) means that J. J. Abrams will more likely focus more on Star Wars<\/i> in the future (where Disney owns everything). \u00a0<\/p>\n

On the one hand, it's frustrating to see this kind of copyright \/ trademark \/ intellectual property tug-of-war interfere with Cool Things happening. \u00a0CBS and Paramount both used to be part of a single media company, Viacom, but spun their separate ways a while back, leading to the mess.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, had it been up to Abrams and his Bad Robot firm, there would not have been any more Star Trek: The Original Series marketing of stuff (so as not to cause "brand confusion" with the rebooted modern franchise). Which would have been highly annoying. \u00a0Having a unified vision isn't always a good thing …<\/p>\n

(h\/t +<\/span>Les Jenkins<\/a><\/span>)<\/div>\n

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How the Battle Over ‘Star Trek’ Rights Killed J.J. Abrams’ Grand Ambitions<\/a>
\n The franchise’s licensing and merchandising rights are split between CBS and Paramount which created headaches for the multihyphenate’s production company Bad Robot\n <\/p>\n

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Legal wrangling over Star Trek (Paramount owns the rights to the movies, but CBS owns all the TV shows as well as the\u00a0characters, which Paramount must then license) means that J. J. Abrams will more likely focus more on Star Wars in the future (where Disney owns everything). \u00a0 On the one hand, it's frustrating … Continue reading “Squabbling over\u00a0the Goose that Lays the Golden Eggs”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,263,79,41,360,372],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-disney","category-media-intellectual-property","category-media-movies","category-media-tv-star-trek","category-star-wars-media-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":130725,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/05\/22\/paramount-to-reach-a-new-agreement-with-fan-made-star-trek-productions.html","url_meta":{"origin":33913,"position":0},"title":"Paramount to reach a new agreement with fan-made "Star Trek" productions","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 22-May-16 10:48am","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, at least according to JJ Abrams, now backed by CBS\/Paramount lawyers. 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