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+ | ====== Former Axanar Chief Technologist Deposed ====== | ||
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+ | <wrap lo>//See also: [[mcintosh_subpoena|Former Axanar Officer Served with Subpoena]]//</ | ||
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+ | SEATTLE — At the October 28, 2016, deposition of Axanar' | ||
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+ | McIntosh said the lines of questioning asked were what he " | ||
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+ | ===== Plaintiffs' | ||
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+ | ==== Peters' | ||
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+ | Jason focused her questions on how Peters spent the money donors contributed to produce //Axanar//, McIntosh said: | ||
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+ | > [She asked] did I know that Alec spent Axanar money to pay for his car (tires, maintenance, | ||
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+ | ==== McIntosh' | ||
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+ | Jason also explored the terms of McIntosh' | ||
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+ | > There was a question on what, if anything, Axanar paid for in my case — which is nothing, since I was not compensated in any way for my entire tenure — including the three trips to L.A. where Axanar paid for my airfare and lodging for those trips. | ||
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+ | The questions Jason asked about Axanar' | ||
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+ | ==== Ranahan' | ||
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+ | Though he was represented by his own counsel, McIntosh confirmed for Jason that Axanar attorney [[Erin Ranahan]] had offered to represent him at the deposition. **AxaMonitor** had [[gossett-subpoena# | ||
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+ | Court documents filed October 27 revealed Winston & Strawn had represented //Axanar// director [[Robert Meyer Burnett]], co-writer Bill Hunt and fulfillment director [[ares_digital_update|Diana Kingsbury]]. | ||
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+ | McIntosh refused the offer, and //Prelude// director [[gossett-subpoena# | ||
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+ | ===== Defense Questions ===== | ||
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+ | Axanar was represented by [[http:// | ||
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+ | McIntosh described the defense questioning as " | ||
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+ | ==== Ares Digital ==== | ||
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+ | The defense focused most of its questions on [[Ares Digital]], the technology platform McIntosh had created as a potential revenue stream for Axanar, McIntosh said. Ares Digital was designed to handle fulfillment of donors' | ||
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+ | //**__« There was a question whether there was a distinction between a fan film and a commercial enterprise and whether they could be one and the same. »__**// — //Terry McIntosh, former Axanar chief technologist// | ||
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+ | McIntosh [[terry_mcintosh|left Axanar]] before completing Ares Digital, which Axanar producer [[Alec Peters]] offered to buy from McIntosh after the resignation in exchange for stock in Axanar' | ||
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+ | Losing its chief technologist left Peters [[ares digital update|scrambling to fulfill]] any kind of perks to an increasingly restless group of thousands of donors. | ||
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+ | === The Inner Workings === | ||
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+ | Mornin spent most of an hour learning about Ares Digital, McIntosh said, how the effort fit into Axanar Productions, | ||
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+ | McIntosh has publicly complained that Axanar does not have rights to the Ares Digital name, and that the version created by his replacement, | ||
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+ | The defense went on to ask "if Alec participated in AD's creation, and the proposed terms and conversation about Alec/Axanar buying my work. They even trotted out a few screen shots of things that I've said in [the [[face> | ||
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+ | The final question on the topic, McIntosh said, "was whether I still had Axanar donor records, which I do, of course." | ||
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+ | === Non-Disclosure Agreement === | ||
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+ | Mornin had started the topic with a question about the " | ||
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+ | ==== Is Axanar a Fan Film? ==== | ||
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+ | One of the first questions asked if McIntosh "felt Axanar was a fan film or not. Then there was a question whether there was a distinction between a fan film and a commercial enterprise and whether they could be one and the same," which left McIntosh confused. | ||
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+ | ==== Plugging Leaks? ==== | ||
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+ | It wasn't a surprise that the defense asked McIntosh how well he knew **AxaMonitor** editor Carlos Pedraza, whom Peters accused of being the recipient of information leaked by the plaintiffs' | ||
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+ | In a court filing the same day as McIntosh' | ||
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+ | <wrap lo>//See also: [[axanar_financials# | ||
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+ | After that, McIntosh said, " | ||
+ | ===== Expectations Fulfilled? ===== | ||
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+ | McIntosh summed up the experience this way: | ||
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+ | > In all, my feeling is that the counsel for the plaintiffs got exactly what they were hoping to get and the defense was just kind of throwing random things against the wall hoping that I'd be confused or intimidated. I wasn' | ||
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