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+ | ====== Crowd Fund for Axanar Expenses Abruptly Ended ====== | ||
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+ | **//Peters Cancels Campaign After Blogger Admits Axanar is Out of Money, Sought $45,000//** | ||
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+ | //**__ __**// <wrap lo>**By [[user> | ||
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+ | A GoFundMe campaign aiming to raise $45,000 to pay three months' | ||
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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 " | ||
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+ | Lane posted in a comment on his blog that he took down the page at Peters' | ||
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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, [[http:// | ||
+ | ===== Independent Fundraising Effort ===== | ||
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+ | 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]] and [[Paramount Pictures]]. | ||
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+ | Lane insisted he set up the campaign without Peters' | ||
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+ | > Alec Peters does not know I am doing this. He will learn about it when I take this live. Alec himself can't do any more crowd-funding while a lawsuit is going on, but I can. WE can.(([[https:// | ||
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+ | 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' | ||
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+ | The notion that, after accumulating $1.4 million from [[crowdfunding_platforms|crowdfunding]] and [[merchandise]] sales, Axanar was out of money raised questions about Peters' | ||
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+ | > Defendants produced the financial information … in an effort to be cooperative and avoid wasting the Court’s time on discovery disputes. <wrap hi> | ||
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+ | //**__«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.»__**// | ||
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+ | <wrap lo>//See also: [[order_fact_check|Loosening Restrictions on Financial Information]]//</ | ||
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+ | For their part, the studios' | ||
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+ | > The material in that document may embarrass Mr. Peters by showing the ways in which he spent funds that were raised from Star Trek fans. This is not a proper basis for designating a document as Highly Confidential.((Plaintiffs’ Ex Parte Application for Order, Memorandum of Points and Authorities, | ||
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+ | ==== Where the Money Went ==== | ||
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+ | 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 === | ||
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+ | Meanwhile, in its April 2, 2016, FAQ, Axanar explained the amount of cash it has on hand changes by the month: | ||
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+ | > The amount of money left over from [Indiegogo] changes every month due to the “burn rate” of maintaining the studio while Axanar Productions works through the details of the lawsuit.(([[http:// | ||
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+ | Lane pegged Axanar' | ||
+ | ===== Appealing to Fans ===== | ||
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+ | 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: | ||
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+ | > 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 ==== | ||
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+ | The GoFundMe page didn't indicate how Lane had planned to reach out to Axanar' | ||
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+ | Since the GoFundMe effort is technically independent of Axanar, Lane should not have had access to donor mailing lists gathered by Peters' | ||
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+ | <wrap lo>//See also: [[propworx-email|Donors Complain Company Spammed Using Axanar List]]//</ | ||
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+ | === Earlier Donor Spamming === | ||
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+ | Kickstarter' | ||
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+ | "There are right ways and wrong ways to go about using email solicitations," | ||
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+ | //**__« [Axanar] is nearly out of money now. I wasn’t supposed to tell you that. »__**// — //Jonathan Lane, Fan Film Factor blogger// | ||
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+ | ===== Reactions ===== | ||
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+ | As of this post, the only comments on the GoFundMe page were negative. Axanar donor Rob Roberson' | ||
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+ | > 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 ==== | ||
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+ | In the first six days of Lane's effort, the campaign had received a single $5 donation — from Dennis Bailey, a former Star Trek writer and fan producer who has been a vocal critic of Axanar. Ostensibly, as a donor, his comment (a statement calling to account [[wp> | ||
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