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 ====== Why We Refused to Remove Redacted Axanar Financial Info ====== ====== Why We Refused to Remove Redacted Axanar Financial Info ======
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 //**__ __**// <wrap lo>**By [[user>cpedraza|Carlos Pedraza]]** \\ //**__ __**// <wrap lo>**By [[user>cpedraza|Carlos Pedraza]]** \\
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 "It has been brought to our attention that your website and/or blog has, as of this morning, published material that was filed under seal pursuant to court order in this case," [[Jonathan Zavin]], lead attorney for plaintiffs [[CBS]] and [[paramount_pictures|Paramount Pictures]], wrote me.((Jonathan Zavin email to AxaMonitor editor Carlos Pedraza, 11/17/16.)) "It has been brought to our attention that your website and/or blog has, as of this morning, published material that was filed under seal pursuant to court order in this case," [[Jonathan Zavin]], lead attorney for plaintiffs [[CBS]] and [[paramount_pictures|Paramount Pictures]], wrote me.((Jonathan Zavin email to AxaMonitor editor Carlos Pedraza, 11/17/16.))
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 The studios are suing producer [[Alec Peters]] and his company, Axanar Productions Inc., for infringing their copyrights by producing a feature film, //Axanar//, with $1.5 million Peters raised from thousands of Star Trek fans. The studios are suing producer [[Alec Peters]] and his company, Axanar Productions Inc., for infringing their copyrights by producing a feature film, //Axanar//, with $1.5 million Peters raised from thousands of Star Trek fans.
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 Under the First and Fourteenth Amendments, **AxaMonitor** is not liable for "truthfully publishing information released to the public in official court records," even if the information should not have been released, according to Cox Broadcasting Corp. v. Cohn, 420 U.S. 469, 496 (1975). Under the First and Fourteenth Amendments, **AxaMonitor** is not liable for "truthfully publishing information released to the public in official court records," even if the information should not have been released, according to Cox Broadcasting Corp. v. Cohn, 420 U.S. 469, 496 (1975).
  
-=== Defense Released Same Information ===+<WRAP right round important 50%> 
 +<wrap lo><wrap em>UPDATE</wrap> On December 29, 2016, defense attorneys admitted — six weeks after that fact — they made an error in disclosing the same Axanar "confidential and sensitive financial information" the defense had criticized the plaintiffs' attorneys for inadvertently releasing.((Notice of Errata re: The Declaration of Kelly N. Oki in Support of Defendants' Motion for Summary Judgment, Document 157, p. 2, 12/29/16.)) 
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 +The amended exhibits accompanying the December 29 filing were meant to replace the original documents, with the financial information simply removed. The inadvertently filed pages, the defense claimed, "are not relevant to Defendants’ Motion for Summary Judgment." Axanar attorney Erin Ranahan had [[excluding_evidence#axanar_s_financials|already indicated]] her intent to bar the jury from seeing any of Axanar's financial data. 
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 +The plaintiffs, naturally, want the jury to see how Peters raised and spent $1.4 million, collected from Star Trek fans, on a film he never produced.</wrap> 
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 +=== Defense Released Same Information in Error ===
  
 Most importantly, while certain text in the plaintiffs' partial summary judgment motion was indeed redacted, the information **AxaMonitor** reported appears unredacted by the defense in documents they themselves released into the public domain. Most importantly, while certain text in the plaintiffs' partial summary judgment motion was indeed redacted, the information **AxaMonitor** reported appears unredacted by the defense in documents they themselves released into the public domain.
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