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- | ====== Peters Wades Into Kickstarter | + | ====== Peters Wades Into Salary, Profit |
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+ | <wrap lo>**By [[user> | ||
- | Starting the week of October 3, 2016, producer [[Alec Peters]] moved to deal with increasing criticism from Axanar' | + | Starting the week of October 3, 2016, producer [[Alec Peters]] moved to deal with increasing criticism from Axanar' |
===== Peters Paid Himself Salary ===== | ===== Peters Paid Himself Salary ===== | ||
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==== Paying it Back ==== | ==== Paying it Back ==== | ||
Peters justified paying himself more than $41,000 in salary and union fees this way: | Peters justified paying himself more than $41,000 in salary and union fees this way: | ||
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> Hey David, I paid back 100% of that salary and have put almost $150,000 of my own money in this project. What else you got? And besides David, I have worked full time on this production for 2 1/2 years. I love that in your world people miraculously donate all their time for no pay working full time.(([[https:// | > Hey David, I paid back 100% of that salary and have put almost $150,000 of my own money in this project. What else you got? And besides David, I have worked full time on this production for 2 1/2 years. I love that in your world people miraculously donate all their time for no pay working full time.(([[https:// | ||
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Lein questioned the premise of Peters' | Lein questioned the premise of Peters' | ||
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That led to three successive posts by Peters: | That led to three successive posts by Peters: | ||
- | > David, the point is you claimed salaries were profit. They are not by any IRS definition. \\ \\ My point was <wrap hi> | + | > David, the point is you claimed salaries were profit. They are not by any IRS definition. \\ \\ My point was <wrap hi> |
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//**__True or False? | //**__True or False? | ||
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- | * Documenting Axanar Productions status as a for-profit corporation in the state of California. | + | * Documenting Axanar Productions' |
* Demonstrating Peters' | * Demonstrating Peters' | ||
- | This was further supported by federal [[judge_r._gary_klausner|Judge R. Gary Klausner]]In dismissing Axanar' | + | This was further supported by federal [[judge_r._gary_klausner|Judge R. Gary Klausner]] |
- | > Although it is unclear whether Defendants stand to earn a profit from the Axanar Works, realizing a profit is irrelevant to this analysis. The Court can easily infer that by raising $1 million to produce the Axanar Works and disseminating the Axanar Works on Youtube.com, | + | > Although it is unclear whether Defendants stand to earn a profit from the Axanar Works, |
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+ | <wrap lo>**FAN WORKS AND MONEY** Learn more about the varying schools of thoughts within fandom over fans' rights to create work based on others' | ||
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+ | In Axanar' | ||
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+ | > Defendant Peters and his colleagues expressly stated that they were not creating a “fan film.” <wrap hi>This case is about a commercial enterprise designed to take money from Star Trek fans</ | ||
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