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 === Early Warning === === Early Warning ===
  
-In a warning [[the_wrap|four months]] before it filed suit, [[CBS]] publicly "object[ed] to professional commercial ventures trading off our property rights."(([[http://www.thewrap.com/how-1-1-million-star-trek-fan-movie-has-escaped-studio-shutdown-so-far/|The Wrap: How $1.1 Million ‘Star Trek’ Fan Movie Has Escaped Studio Shutdown (So Far)]], 8/25/15.))+In a warning [[the_wrap|four months]] before it filed suit, [[CBS]] publicly "object[ed] to professional commercial ventures trading off our property rights"(([[http://www.thewrap.com/how-1-1-million-star-trek-fan-movie-has-escaped-studio-shutdown-so-far/|The Wrap: How $1.1 Million ‘Star Trek’ Fan Movie Has Escaped Studio Shutdown (So Far)]], 8/25/15.)) — a warning at which Peters [[i09_wrong#trading_off_our_property_rights|publicly scoffed]] less than a month later.
  
 Peters' commercial ventures went beyond just the soundstage. He also set up a full-fledged online store selling Axanar [[merchandise]], using its Star Trek provenance to market a full line of products, raising money that remains unaccounted for even now. Peters' commercial ventures went beyond just the soundstage. He also set up a full-fledged online store selling Axanar [[merchandise]], using its Star Trek provenance to market a full line of products, raising money that remains unaccounted for even now.
  
 Axanar's 2015 [[annual report]] outlined extensive plans to expand its revenue streams as it moved into the future, a business at the heart of which was intellectual property Alec Peters did not own. Axanar's 2015 [[annual report]] outlined extensive plans to expand its revenue streams as it moved into the future, a business at the heart of which was intellectual property Alec Peters did not own.
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 ==== What I Have Criticized ==== ==== What I Have Criticized ====
  
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-None of these issues is about the //Axanar// feature film. It doesn't exist. And I have never called upon anyone to make Peters a pariah. Instead, **AxaMonitor** focuses on the way donors' money was used (and not used) so that when the expected fundraising effort for Axanar Lite finally comes, prospective donors can verify the project's track record and make an informed choice: +None of these issues is about the //Axanar// feature film. It doesn't exist. And I have never called upon anyone to make Peters a pariah. Instead, **AxaMonitor** focuses on the way donors' money was used (and not used) so that when the expected fundraising effort for [[Axanar Lite]] finally comes, prospective donors can verify the project's track record and make an informed choice: 
  
 In view of that track record is it worth it to donate still more money (estimated at $200,000) to the shortened 30-minute version of the story allowed under Peters' settlement of the copyright lawsuit brought by CBS/Paramount? In view of that track record is it worth it to donate still more money (estimated at $200,000) to the shortened 30-minute version of the story allowed under Peters' settlement of the copyright lawsuit brought by CBS/Paramount?