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bailey_committee [2017/01/28 19:04] – ['Draconian' Guidelines] edit for clarity Carlos Pedrazabailey_committee [2017/03/06 15:57] – adds see also link Carlos Pedraza
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 //**__ __**// <wrap lo>**By [[user>cpedraza|Carlos Pedraza]]**</wrap> //**__ __**// <wrap lo>**By [[user>cpedraza|Carlos Pedraza]]**</wrap>
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 +<wrap lo>//See also: [[plea_removed|Axanar Removes Public Fundraising Plea — Sort of]]//</wrap>
  
 Despite a settlement agreement Axanar itself claimed allows no public financing, its website continued to solicit donations by creating the impression it is a nonprofit organization, and capturing potential donors' email addresses as a possible end run around the settlement's funding prohibition. Despite a settlement agreement Axanar itself claimed allows no public financing, its website continued to solicit donations by creating the impression it is a nonprofit organization, and capturing potential donors' email addresses as a possible end run around the settlement's funding prohibition.
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 Peters also noted that documentaries the making of //Axanar// and the lawsuit were fair game for production outside the fan film guidelines. "Hopefully, we can get someone else to come in and make a documentary," he said. Peters also noted that documentaries the making of //Axanar// and the lawsuit were fair game for production outside the fan film guidelines. "Hopefully, we can get someone else to come in and make a documentary," he said.
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 +[{{ :houseofkharnnewpicture_large.jpg?direct&200|**LAWYERS AND KLINGONS** Peters' gift of Axanar Coffee to his lawyers recalled one Klingon advocate's approach to legal matters: "We Klingons are not concerned with matters of fact and circumstance."(([[http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Ch'Pok|Ch'Pok, Deep Space Nine, Memory Alpha]], retrieved 1/28/17.))}}]
  
 === Axanar Books === === Axanar Books ===
  
-Peters pointed to potential book projects, including his own recounting his experience trying to make //Axanar// and how he contended with the copyright infringement lawsuit, and a book by someone else focusing on just the making of //Axanar//.+Peters pointed to potential book projects, including his own recounting the experience trying to produce //Axanar// and how he contended with the copyright infringement lawsuit, and a book by someone else focusing on just the making of //Axanar//. 
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 +=== The Final Fate of Axanar Coffee === 
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 +While Peters pulled Axanar's coffee from the market because of the lawsuit, he revealed that he had given his pro bono lawyers at Winston & Strawn some of the product as gifts for their service. 
  
 " We will do projects other than //Axanar//," Peters promised, "that will make the donors happy, too." {{:axamonitor-ico.gif?nolink|}} " We will do projects other than //Axanar//," Peters promised, "that will make the donors happy, too." {{:axamonitor-ico.gif?nolink|}}