INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY NOTICE

Trademarks

The Virtual Enterprise Project (The Project) acknowledges that all of the following are trademarks of Paramount Pictures or affiliated company (heretofore referred to as Paramount Affiliates):

  • Star Trek, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, Enterprise, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan, Star Trek: The Search for Spock, Star Trek: The Voyage Home, Star Trek: The Final Frontier, Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country, Star Trek: Generations, Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Insurrection, and Star Trek: Nemesis (collectively defined as "Star Trek works").
  • All other qualifying marks, words, or logos seen on the various Star Trek series.

    • The Project offers no suggestion that the work presented on this web page is "official" or produced or sanctioned by the owner of the aforementioned trademarks. In order to comply with United States Trademark Law, all materials produced by The Project will identify themselves as unofficial fan works. The Project will take all steps necessary to ensure that any usage of trademarked items in no way confuses the audience of this site as to its origin.

    Copyrighted Works

    The Project acknowledges that all of the following are copyrighted works of Paramount Affiliates:

  • All video that is a part of any of the Star Trek works.
  • All promotional pictures produced for any of the Star Trek works.
  • All promotional videos produced for any of the Star Trek works.
  • All other works produced while a salaried employee or contracting for a production which is a part of the collective Star Trek works.

    • The Project submits that the following are not copyrighted works:

  • Factual data, including the names, ages, likenesses, and other vital data of actors who have appeared in Star Trek.
  • Information about the production of the Star Trek series.
  • The general configuration, or look-and-feel of any of the Star Trek works, so long as any original work of TRG cannot be considered a derivative work of a work copyrighted by Paramount Pictures.

    • The Project will make every effort to comply with United States Copyright law, and will only use copyrighted works if The Project believes that such use is excepted from prohibition by the Fair Use clause of United States Copyright Law.
    Works created by The Project are more likely to qualify for Fair Use exemptions that works than the typical work.
    First, The Project's members work for no profit. In fact, members of The Project take a loss for the production of its works, and no money is charged or received by The Project for any service or product.
    Second, the amount of the work used by The Project is always extremely limited. Sometimes, a still image from an episode may be used (one of tens of thousands of images in the entire work), or a small part of a given image may be used.
    Third, The Project does not intend, nor believe it to be likely for the usage of copyrighted materials as part of The Project's works to cause a decline in the potential market for the work. In fact, The Project's productions will likely cause an increase in interest for the properties of Paramount Affiliates, as the audience for The Project's works will only be persons who already have an intense interest in the works of Paramount Affiliates.

    In addition, there are compelling reasons why each individual work that is used by The Project would be covered under that Fair Use exemption of United States Copyright Law. However, The Project will make every effort to limit use of the Star Trek works, even when covered under the Fair Use Exemption, and will favor original works of The Project for use when possible. of infringement

    The Project requests that in the case that the owner or owners of a copyrighted work feel that their work is being illegally infringed upon, they provide a full list of all items which they believe are infringing, along with the reasoning behind the belief that those items are infringing to:
    Jo Hack
    36 Norwood Garden
    Southwell
    Nottinghamshire
    NG25 0DT
    UK

    In addition, please provide the name of a person, along with their mailing address and email address if possible, for a reply or follow-up letters.

    Properties of The Project

    The Project does not submit nor imply that the usage of Enterprise or Star Trek implies that The Project is a part of the official Star Trek works.

    All images, text, and other works presented on this web page which are not the property of Paramount Pictures are copyright their respective authors (which includes artists and developers). By choosing to contribute to The Project authors license characters, concepts, story developments, names, images and other properties used in The Project to The Project. This license grants other members of The Project to use such properties in The Project but no other works. This license survives an author's decision to leave the Project and is not limited by time or geography.

    If any person wishes to reproduce or otherwise utilize a right reserved to copyright owners by law any copyrighted work of The Project, explicit written permission is required. The only exception is the Fair Use exemption, which is described in Sec. 107 of Title 17 of the U.S. Code. The The Project will be glad to answer any inquiries on Fair Use of The Project's properties and may be contacted at touchlessness@yahoo.com.