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::::::::making the work into a supposed parody may have worked (in theory) for getting the BBC and Paramount off their backs, but that wouldn't have made them any less liable for Airey to have sued them. I own the original 'zine (i.e. the one printed before Pioneer ripped) and I suppose I could check, but I wonder if she perhaps forgot to copyright her work. not an excuse for the publisher's brazen rip-off, though. --[[User:Stardizzy2|Stardizzy2]] 00:14, 9 May 2009 (UTC) | ::::::::making the work into a supposed parody may have worked (in theory) for getting the BBC and Paramount off their backs, but that wouldn't have made them any less liable for Airey to have sued them. I own the original 'zine (i.e. the one printed before Pioneer ripped) and I suppose I could check, but I wonder if she perhaps forgot to copyright her work. not an excuse for the publisher's brazen rip-off, though. --[[User:Stardizzy2|Stardizzy2]] 00:14, 9 May 2009 (UTC) | ||
:::Well, she wouldn't have had the ability to copyright her work, as she doesn't own anything about it. No official ''Star Trek'' book has any other copyright than '''© Paramount Pictures'''. ''Star Trek'' is not ''Doctor Who'', where — quite bizarrely — individual authors can claim copyright to original characters in their scripts. If she'd tried to claim copyright, Paramount coulda been all over her like white on rice. But even if she '''had''' claimed copyright, and it was held up in court, what Pioneer did would have still been legal under US law, because they were parodying her work. '''[[User:CzechOut|<span style="background:blue;color:white">Czech</span><span style="background:red;color:white">Out</span>]]''' [[User talk:CzechOut|☎]] | [[Special:Contributions/CzechOut|<font size="+1">✍</font>]] 01:41, 9 May 2009 (UTC) | :::Well, she wouldn't have had the ability to copyright her work, as she doesn't own anything about it. No official ''Star Trek'' book has any other copyright than '''© Paramount Pictures'''. ''Star Trek'' is not ''Doctor Who'', where — quite bizarrely — individual authors can claim copyright to original characters in their scripts. If she'd tried to claim copyright, Paramount coulda been all over her like white on rice. But even if she '''had''' claimed copyright, and it was held up in court, what Pioneer did would have still been legal under US law, because they were parodying her work. '''[[User:CzechOut|<span style="background:blue;color:white">Czech</span><span style="background:red;color:white">Out</span>]]''' [[User talk:CzechOut|☎]] | [[Special:Contributions/CzechOut|<font size="+1">✍</font>]] 01:41, 9 May 2009 (UTC) | ||
::::Well based on this (interesting) info I still suggest we chuck it all on Airey's article page, it'd make for an interesting read and a more lengthy article. --[[User:Tangerineduel|Tangerineduel]] 16:01, 9 May 2009 (UTC) | |||
