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- | ====== | + | ====== Crowd Fund for Axanar Expenses |
- | **//Fan Film Factor | + | **//Peters Cancels Campaign After Blogger Admits Axanar is Out of Money, |
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- | Blogger Jonathan Lane launched a $45, | + | A GoFundMe campaign aiming to raise $45,000 to pay three months' |
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+ | ===== Axanar' | ||
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+ | Titled "We Stand With Axanar," | ||
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> Already, Alec has put more than $150,000 of his own money into " | > Already, Alec has put more than $150,000 of his own money into " | ||
- | ===== Independent Fundraising Effort ===== | + | On Kickstarter more than a week later, Peters revealed he had personally paid for months of the rent of Industry Studios, his commercial soundstage paid for with donor dollars, entitling him to use the space as he saw fit, including setting up a [[wp> |
- | As a formally independent crowdfund, controlled by Lane, this new money could very well lie beyond | + | Lane posted in a comment on his blog that he took down the page at Peters' |
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+ | **Inside the Studio** | ||
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+ | > Alec asked me to take down the GoFundMe site. It is now down. Not wanting him to be involved with it in any way until it was officially launched, I didn’t tell him I’d put it up online in the first place. When he found out about it, I got a call very quickly.((Jonathan Lane, comment, | ||
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+ | ===== Independent Fundraising Effort ===== | ||
- | [{{ : | + | As a formally independent crowdfund, controlled by Lane, this new money might very well have been beyond the reach of any damages or monetary settlement stemming from the [[copyright infringement]] lawsuit Peters faces from [[CBS]] |
Lane insisted he set up the campaign without Peters' | Lane insisted he set up the campaign without Peters' | ||
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Lane portrayed Axanar' | Lane portrayed Axanar' | ||
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+ | Oddly, Lane set up the GoFundMe page on October 29, yet on November 2 he posted this reply to a supporter' | ||
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+ | > Hmmmm… Not a bad idea! Alec can’t really crowd-fund right now. Well, technically, | ||
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+ | Of course by the time of that posting, his GoFundMe page had been up for four days. | ||
===== Axanar' | ===== Axanar' | ||
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As of January 2016, when Axanar’s Indiegogo campaign was shuttered by the lawsuit, **AxaMonitor** [[ambition_vs._achievement# | As of January 2016, when Axanar’s Indiegogo campaign was shuttered by the lawsuit, **AxaMonitor** [[ambition_vs._achievement# | ||
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+ | //**__It became apparent Lane began to delete negative comments from the GoFundMe page.__**// | ||
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=== Burn Rate === | === Burn Rate === | ||
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Lane pegged Axanar' | Lane pegged Axanar' | ||
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===== Appealing to Fans ===== | ===== Appealing to Fans ===== | ||
- | Lane's appeal to fans consisted of painting Axanar as a victim of studio intimidation on the precipice | + | Lane's appeal to fans consisted of painting Axanar as a victim of studio intimidation on the brink of financial ruin, followed by a standard tactic used in election campaign fundraising: |
> But we're so close to the finish line! If we can just keep the lights on for a few more months, this case can play out in court and we'll all know the conclusion … good or bad. HELP US REACH THE FINISH LINE!(([[https:// | > But we're so close to the finish line! If we can just keep the lights on for a few more months, this case can play out in court and we'll all know the conclusion … good or bad. HELP US REACH THE FINISH LINE!(([[https:// | ||
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==== Using Donor Mailing Lists ==== | ==== Using Donor Mailing Lists ==== | ||
- | The GoFundMe page didn't indicate how Lane planned to reach out to Axanar' | + | The GoFundMe page didn't indicate how Lane had planned to reach out to Axanar' |
- | Since the GoFundMe effort is technically independent of Axanar, Lane should not have access to donor mailing lists gathered by Peters' | + | Since the GoFundMe effort is technically independent of Axanar, Lane should not have had access to donor mailing lists gathered by Peters' |
<wrap lo>//See also: [[propworx-email|Donors Complain Company Spammed Using Axanar List]]//</ | <wrap lo>//See also: [[propworx-email|Donors Complain Company Spammed Using Axanar List]]//</ | ||
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"There are right ways and wrong ways to go about using email solicitations," | "There are right ways and wrong ways to go about using email solicitations," | ||
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+ | //**__« [Axanar] | ||
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===== Reactions ===== | ===== Reactions ===== | ||
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> I will happily donate to the cause the day after we all get to look at Axanar' | > I will happily donate to the cause the day after we all get to look at Axanar' | ||
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+ | ==== Deleting Negative Comments ==== | ||
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+ | It became apparent Lane began to [[https:// | ||
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+ | One commenter reacted to the deletions: "You can delete all the comments you want. More will replace the ones you axe." | ||
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==== Money Raised ==== | ==== Money Raised ==== | ||
- | In the first six days of Lane's effort, the campaign had yet to receive | + | In the first six days of Lane's effort, the campaign had received |
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**Keywords** {{tag> | **Keywords** {{tag> |