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 ===== About the Axanar App ===== ===== About the Axanar App =====
  
-[{{ ::axanar-app.jpg?300|**SOLICITING DONATIONS** appeared to have been a prominent feature of Axanar's iOS news app.}}]+[{{ ::axanar-app.jpg?300|**SOLICITING DONATIONS** appeared to have been a prominent feature of Axanar's iOS news app. //Photo/iTunes//}}]
  
 Available on the [[https://appsto.re/us/6zY27.i|iTunes App Store]] since November 2015, the app was created to publicize "the latest in thoughts and chatter about Axanar behind the scenes," and appeared to automatically feature content from the Axanar website (i.e., the Axanar Blog, Captain's Log and the Fulfillment Blog), likely through RSS feeds. Available on the [[https://appsto.re/us/6zY27.i|iTunes App Store]] since November 2015, the app was created to publicize "the latest in thoughts and chatter about Axanar behind the scenes," and appeared to automatically feature content from the Axanar website (i.e., the Axanar Blog, Captain's Log and the Fulfillment Blog), likely through RSS feeds.
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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}}