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bailey_committee [2017/01/28 17:55] – created Carlos Pedrazabailey_committee [2018/05/08 18:06] (current) – [Axanar Lite] 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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 After //Axanar//'s director of photography Milton Santiago resigned from the' so-called independent [[financial_review_committee|financial review committee]], Peters refused to disclose who would fill the third slot. He cited concerns that **AxaMonitor** would [[financial_review_committee#axamonitor_harassment|harass]] the new committee member. After //Axanar//'s director of photography Milton Santiago resigned from the' so-called independent [[financial_review_committee|financial review committee]], Peters refused to disclose who would fill the third slot. He cited concerns that **AxaMonitor** would [[financial_review_committee#axamonitor_harassment|harass]] the new committee member.
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 +//**__<wrap lo>‘Peters named Bing Bailey, an Axanar crew member, to the committee, raising the same conflict of interest concerns that prompted another member to resign.’</wrap>__**// — //New Financial Reviewer's Independence//
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 That concern appeared to have dissipated by January 26 when Peters named Bailey, an Axanar crew member, to the committee,(([[http://trek.fm/axp/s1|Official Axanar Podcast, Supplemental 1]], 1/26/17.)) raising the same conflict of interest concerns that prompted Santiago to resign. That concern appeared to have dissipated by January 26 when Peters named Bailey, an Axanar crew member, to the committee,(([[http://trek.fm/axp/s1|Official Axanar Podcast, Supplemental 1]], 1/26/17.)) raising the same conflict of interest concerns that prompted Santiago to resign.
  
 **AxaMonitor** attempted to contact Bailey for comment. He replied through Axanar spokesman [[bawden_s_broad_brush|Mike Bawden]] that he did not wish to be contacted further.((Email from Mike Bawden to AxaMonitor editor Carlos Pedraza, 1/28/17.)) **AxaMonitor** attempted to contact Bailey for comment. He replied through Axanar spokesman [[bawden_s_broad_brush|Mike Bawden]] that he did not wish to be contacted further.((Email from Mike Bawden to AxaMonitor editor Carlos Pedraza, 1/28/17.))
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 +[[gossett-subpoena|Bailey was named]] in more than one of the subpoenas served to witnesses in the Axanar lawsuit as a person whose communications with other witnesses was of interest to attorneys in the case. 
  
 [{{ ::bing-bailey-fb.jpg?nolink&150|**[[imdb>name/nm3729709/| Bing Bailey]]**}}] [{{ ::bing-bailey-fb.jpg?nolink&150|**[[imdb>name/nm3729709/| Bing Bailey]]**}}]
  
 In addition to questions about the independence of a committee that includes two Axanar crew members were continuing concerns about the validity of examining only financial records [[financial_review_findings|selected in advance]] by Peters himself, whose own interest remained in exonerating himself from allegations in court documents of [[summary_motions_filed|lavish personal spending]] of donors' money. In addition to questions about the independence of a committee that includes two Axanar crew members were continuing concerns about the validity of examining only financial records [[financial_review_findings|selected in advance]] by Peters himself, whose own interest remained in exonerating himself from allegations in court documents of [[summary_motions_filed|lavish personal spending]] of donors' money.
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 ===== Axanar Lite ===== ===== Axanar Lite =====
  
-The January 26 Official Axanar Podcast, the first since the settlement, offered more details about Peters' plans for the scaled-back //Axanar//.+The January 26 Official Axanar Podcast, the first since the settlement, offered more details about Peters' plans for the scaled-back //Axanar// (AKA [[Axanar Lite]]).
  
 Co-host Burnett called Peters "a winner, a big winner," in the lawsuit having "emerged successful from the fight of his life" because Peters will get to make //Axanar// albeit in a much shorter form and largely subject to the [[cbs_guidelines|guidelines CBS imposed]] governing fan productions. Co-host Burnett called Peters "a winner, a big winner," in the lawsuit having "emerged successful from the fight of his life" because Peters will get to make //Axanar// albeit in a much shorter form and largely subject to the [[cbs_guidelines|guidelines CBS imposed]] governing fan productions.
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 === Other Fan Films' Examples === === Other Fan Films' Examples ===
  
-While condemning other fan producers with one breath, Peters praised others as good examples of successful fan efforts made under the guidelines, pointing to //Chasing the Infinite Sky// and the forthcoming //Pacific 201//, on which Axanar set designer [[http://www.axanarproductions.com/interview-eric-henry-of-pacific-201/|Eric Henry]] also worked.+While condemning other fan producers with one breath, with another Peters praised others as good examples of successful fan efforts made under the guidelines, pointing to //Chasing the Infinite Sky// and the forthcoming //Pacific 201//, on which Axanar set designer [[http://www.axanarproductions.com/interview-eric-henry-of-pacific-201/|Eric Henry]] also worked.
  
 "We want to be like Pacific 201 and the new [[http://www.starbasestudios.net|Starbase Studios]] in Arkansas," Peters said.(([[http://trek.fm/axp/s1|Official Axanar Podcast, Supplemental 1]], 1/26/17.)) Starbase Studios provides production facilities for a number of smaller Star Trek fan films. "We want to be like Pacific 201 and the new [[http://www.starbasestudios.net|Starbase Studios]] in Arkansas," Peters said.(([[http://trek.fm/axp/s1|Official Axanar Podcast, Supplemental 1]], 1/26/17.)) Starbase Studios provides production facilities for a number of smaller Star Trek fan films.
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 <wrap lo>**DRACONIAN** When CBS issued fan film guidelines in 2016, //Axanar// director Robert Meyer Burnett [[twit>BurnettRM/status/746069323479920640|tweeted]] this: \\ <wrap lo>**DRACONIAN** When CBS issued fan film guidelines in 2016, //Axanar// director Robert Meyer Burnett [[twit>BurnettRM/status/746069323479920640|tweeted]] this: \\
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-//CBS announced just announced STAR TREK fan film guidelines so draconian I can no longer work on my own film.//</wrap>+//CBS just announced STAR TREK fan film guidelines so draconian I can no longer work on my own film.//</wrap>
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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|}}