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+ | ====== Paramount Pictures ====== | ||
+ | <wrap lo>//See also: [[cbs|CBS Studios]]//</ | ||
+ | **Paramount Pictures** Corp. (commonly known as Paramount Studios or simply Paramount), is one of the two named [[summary_of_the_lawsuit# | ||
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+ | While [[CBS]] is the current copyright owner of the Star Trek brand, entitling it to production of television series based on those copyrights, Paramount holds the rights for production of Star Trek motion pictures. | ||
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+ | ==== Legal Representation ==== | ||
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+ | Paramount and CBS are represented in the Axanar suit by the Los Angeles law firm, [[Loeb & Loeb]], whose attorney, [[Jonathan Zavin]], is leading the case against Axanar. | ||
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+ | ===== Corporate Structure ===== | ||
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+ | Paramount is a film studio, television production company and motion picture distributor, | ||
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+ | ==== Paramount and Star Trek ==== | ||
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+ | At Star Trek's creation, Norway Productions, | ||
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+ | However, Star Trek had lost money, and the studio did not expect to syndicate it. In 1970, Paramount offered to sell all rights to Star Trek to Roddenberry, | ||
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+ | In 1989, Gulf+Western renamed itself Paramount Communications, | ||
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+ | === The Franchise === | ||
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+ | Star Trek is considered Paramount' | ||
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+ | In 1995, Viacom and Chris-Craft Industries' | ||
+ | ==== CBS-Viacom Split ==== | ||
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+ | Reflecting in part the troubles of the broadcasting business, in 2005 Viacom announced that it would split itself in two, which was completed in January 2006. The Viacom Inc. board split the company into CBS Corporation and a separate company under the Viacom name. Under the plan, CBS Corp. would comprise the CBS and UPN television networks, Paramount Television, Showtime, publisher Simon and Schuster, and CBS News, among other subsidiaries. The revamped Viacom would include MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, | ||
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+ | In 2009, CBS stopped using the Paramount name in its series and changed the name of the production arm to CBS Television Studios, eliminating the Paramount name from television, to distance itself from the latter. | ||
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+ | Portions of this article were adapted from the articles, **[[wp> | ||
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