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author_author [2017/10/31 00:52] – [Donors' Money Paid for Merchandise] edits to clarify Carlos Pedrazaauthor_author [2018/05/19 18:32] (current) – [Donors' Money Paid for Merchandise] edit to correct Carlos Pedraza
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 **AN ALABAMA** website has begun selling allegedly abandoned Axanar Productions [[merchandise]] potentially worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, claiming no affiliation with the company, and that lawyers cleared the items for sale despite the copyright infringement cloud over Axanar's operations. **AN ALABAMA** website has begun selling allegedly abandoned Axanar Productions [[merchandise]] potentially worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, claiming no affiliation with the company, and that lawyers cleared the items for sale despite the copyright infringement cloud over Axanar's operations.
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 +<wrap lo>//See also: <wrap em>UPDATE</wrap> [[soundtrack_pulled|Bookseller Pulls Axanar Merchandise]]//</wrap>
  
 [{{ ::author_author_bookstore_books_author_deep_discount.jpg?direct&300|**AXA-STUFF** Merchandise created with Axanar donors' money offers a profit-making opportunity for someone else.}}] [{{ ::author_author_bookstore_books_author_deep_discount.jpg?direct&300|**AXA-STUFF** Merchandise created with Axanar donors' money offers a profit-making opportunity for someone else.}}]
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 Contributors' money instead went to produce patches and other [[merchandise]] offered for sale on the Axanar website's Donor Store. Merchandise sales — including coffee, books, posters, clothing, Blu-rays DVDs and especially patches — drawing from Star Trek intellectual property was one of the chief criticisms of Axanar during the copyright lawsuit. Contributors' money instead went to produce patches and other [[merchandise]] offered for sale on the Axanar website's Donor Store. Merchandise sales — including coffee, books, posters, clothing, Blu-rays DVDs and especially patches — drawing from Star Trek intellectual property was one of the chief criticisms of Axanar during the copyright lawsuit.
  
-No detailed accounting of revenue produced by Axanar's Donor Store has never been disclosed by Peters.+No detailed accounting of revenue produced by Axanar's Donor Store has ever been disclosed by Peters.
  
-That online store was shut down in the aftermath of the copyright settlement, leaving Peters saddled with thousands of items for which he had to [[indiegogo_halt|raise more money]] to move from his failed Industry Studios to his new location in [[atlanta_move|Lawrenceville, Ga]].+That online store was shut down in the aftermath of the copyright settlement, leaving Peters saddled with thousands of items for which he had to [[indiegogo_halt|raise more money]] to move from his failed Industry Studios outside Los Angeles to his new location in [[atlanta_move|Lawrenceville, Ga]].
  
 [{{ ::laura-hayden-inventory.jpg?300|**TAKING STOCK** Author, Author!'s Laura Beard Hayden attended Axanar's October 21, 2017, open house, where she appeared to take inventory of merchandise she was to sell on her website.}}] [{{ ::laura-hayden-inventory.jpg?300|**TAKING STOCK** Author, Author!'s Laura Beard Hayden attended Axanar's October 21, 2017, open house, where she appeared to take inventory of merchandise she was to sell on her website.}}]
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-//**__« This was vetted by the original lawyers involved in the CBS/Paramount case. »__**// <wrap indent>— //Laura Hayden Beard, Author, Author! Bookseller//</wrap>+//**__« This was vetted by the original lawyers involved in the CBS/Paramount case. »__**// <wrap indent>— //Laura Beard Hayden, Author, Author! Bookseller//</wrap>
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 /* [{{ ::axanar-idic-patch-1.jpg?200|**ANOTHER ITEM** for sale includes the Vulcan IDIC symbol.}}] */ /* [{{ ::axanar-idic-patch-1.jpg?200|**ANOTHER ITEM** for sale includes the Vulcan IDIC symbol.}}] */
  
-[{{ ::actual_prelude_cd.jpg?direct&300|**ACTUAL CD** AxaMonitor obtained a physical copy of the //Prelude// soundtrack, which had an additional Star Trek reference, to Axanar's now-defunct Web address. The image on the bookseller's website also had that text removed. <wrap lo>//Click image to view full-size.//</wrap>}}]+[{{ ::actual_prelude_cd.jpg?direct&300|**THE ACTUAL CD** features an additional Star Trek reference, to Axanar's now-defunct Web address, contrary to the image used to sell the product. <wrap lo>//Click image to view full-size.//</wrap>}}]
  
 However, at least two pieces of merchandise did, including the //Prelude// soundtrack, whose back cover as displayed on Hayden's website on October 26 included the words, "Star Trek created by Gene Roddenberry," and Axanar's now-defunct Web address, www.StarTrekAxanar.com. However, at least two pieces of merchandise did, including the //Prelude// soundtrack, whose back cover as displayed on Hayden's website on October 26 included the words, "Star Trek created by Gene Roddenberry," and Axanar's now-defunct Web address, www.StarTrekAxanar.com.
  
 By October 27, that image [[http://www.author-author.net/?page=shop/flypage&product_id=25858|was replaced]] with one in which those words and the Web address no longer appeared. Also, one of the patches displayed the copyrighted Vulcan IDIC symbol. By October 27, that image [[http://www.author-author.net/?page=shop/flypage&product_id=25858|was replaced]] with one in which those words and the Web address no longer appeared. Also, one of the patches displayed the copyrighted Vulcan IDIC symbol.
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 +Soon after the initial publication of this article, Hayden's website completely {{::updated_soundtrack.jpg?linkonly|eliminated}} its image of the back cover of the //Prelude// soundtrack CD, while continuing to sell the item, presumably with the Star Trek references intact.
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 +Meanwhile, the CD continued to be [[https://web.archive.org/web/20171101170240/http://www.author-author.net/?page=shop/browse&category_id=937|featured]] in a category on the site along with explicit Star Trek products, until  [[soundtrack pulled|suddenly pulled]] less than a week later from the website with a notice it was out of stock.
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 +== Soundtrack for Free ==
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 +While Hayden's website charges $15 for the //Prelude// soundtrack, the composer, Alexander Bornstein, actually offers all the tracks from the CD [[http://www.alexanderbornstein.com/prelude-to-axanar-ost/|for free]] on his personal website.
  
 === "Vetted by Lawyers" === === "Vetted by Lawyers" ===
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-**Keywords** {{tag>commercial copyright trademark}}+**Keywords** {{tag>commercial copyright trademark merchandise}}