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axanar_app [2016/09/20 03:48] – edited photo captions Carlos Pedrazaaxanar_app [2016/09/20 11:31] – [The ‘Seller’] corrects spelling; adds link to mcintosh subpoena Carlos Pedraza
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 ==== The ‘Seller’ ==== ==== The ‘Seller’ ====
  
-The person listed as "seller" on iTunes was a 'Bill levinson' [sic]. According to Terry McIntosh, who was Axanar's chief technologist at the time the app was developed, Levinson is actually Bill Watters.(([[face>groups/CBSvsAxanar/permalink/1308265779184789/?comment_id=1309109922433708&reply_comment_id=1309654155712618&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R9%22%7D|Terry McIntosh post, CBS/Paramount v. Axanar Facebook group]], 9/18/16.)) Watters replaced McIntosh as CTO after he [[terry_mcintosh|resigned]] from Axanar in May 2016.+The person listed as "seller" on iTunes was a 'bill Levinson' [sic]. According to Terry McIntosh, who was Axanar's chief technologist at the time the app was developed, Levinson is actually Bill Watters.(([[face>groups/CBSvsAxanar/permalink/1308265779184789/?comment_id=1309109922433708&reply_comment_id=1309654155712618&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R9%22%7D|Terry McIntosh post, CBS/Paramount v. Axanar Facebook group]], 9/18/16.)) Watters replaced McIntosh as CTO after he [[terry_mcintosh|resigned]] from Axanar in May 2016.
  
-McIntosh went on to become an outspoken Axanar critic, scheduled to be deposed as a witness subpoenaed by [[CBS]] and [[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]], the plaintiffs in the [[copyright infringement]] [[lawsuit]] lodged against [[Axanar Productions]] and producer [[Alec Peters]].+McIntosh went on to become an outspoken Axanar critic, scheduled to be deposed as a witness [[mcintosh_subpoena|subpoenaed]] by [[CBS]] and [[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]], the plaintiffs in the [[copyright infringement]] [[lawsuit]] lodged against [[Axanar Productions]] and producer [[Alec Peters]].
  
 [{{ ::itunes-unavailable.jpg?300|**DISAPPEARED** Two days after criticism was posted on Facebook, Axanar's year-old donation and news app was removed from the App Store.}}] [{{ ::itunes-unavailable.jpg?300|**DISAPPEARED** Two days after criticism was posted on Facebook, Axanar's year-old donation and news app was removed from the App Store.}}]
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 ===== Criticism ===== ===== Criticism =====
  
-Axanar critics in the Facebook group wondered if the app's prominent "Donate" button might have run afoul of Apple's rules regarding in-app purchases and charitable fundraising. Despite the [[http://www.axanarproductions.com/donate/|claims on its website]], Axanar is not a charitable, nonprofit organization; it is a registered for-profit corporation in the state of California. {{:axamonitor-ico.gif?nolink|}}+Axanar critics in the Facebook group wondered if the app's prominent "Donate" button might have run afoul of Apple's rules regarding in-app purchases and charitable fundraising. Despite the [[http://www.axanarproductions.com/donate/|claims on its website]], Axanar is not a charitable, nonprofit organization; it is a registered [[axanar_myths|for-profit corporation]] in the state of California. {{:axamonitor-ico.gif?nolink|}}
  
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 **Keywords** {{tag>defendants merchandise commercial social_media}} **Keywords** {{tag>defendants merchandise commercial social_media}}