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 <wrap lo>**BOWED BUT NOT BROKEN** Thousands of undelivered patches promised as perks to donors weigh down shelves in Axanar's storage room, awaiting shipment.</wrap> <wrap lo>**BOWED BUT NOT BROKEN** Thousands of undelivered patches promised as perks to donors weigh down shelves in Axanar's storage room, awaiting shipment.</wrap>
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-====== Axanar Update Aims to Reassure Donors About Perks, Lawsuit Prospects ======+====== Axanar Aims to Reassure Donors About Perks, Lawsuit Prospects ====== 
 +**//ALSO: Is the Lawsuit Behind Axanar's Donor Store Re-branding as ‘Donor Station’?//** 
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 +//**__ __**// <wrap lo>**By [[user>cpedraza|Carlos Pedraza]]**</wrap> 
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 In a "mid-summer update," Axanar sought to assure Kickstarter backers about perks it stated were almost ready for delivery, and claimed the [[copyright infringement|copyright]] [[lawsuit]] it faces from [[CBS]] and [[paramount_pictures|Paramount]] had merely "slowed us down." In a "mid-summer update," Axanar sought to assure Kickstarter backers about perks it stated were almost ready for delivery, and claimed the [[copyright infringement|copyright]] [[lawsuit]] it faces from [[CBS]] and [[paramount_pictures|Paramount]] had merely "slowed us down."
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 ===== Rewards for Kickstarter Backers Only ===== ===== Rewards for Kickstarter Backers Only =====
  
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-//**__«The lawsuit may have slowed us down, but we aren't going anywhere!»__**// — //Axanar Update to Indiegogo Donors, 7/28/16// ((Indiegogo Email Update, "Axanar Team," "New Campaign Update!" 7/28/16.))+//**__« The lawsuit may have slowed us down, but we aren't going anywhere! »__**// — //Axanar Update to Indiegogo Donors, 7/28/16// ((Indiegogo Email Update, "Axanar Team," "New Campaign Update!" 7/28/16.))
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 > Note that patches from the //Axanar// [[axanar_indiegogo_details|Indiegogo campaign]] (from August 2015) will not begin to ship until AFTER those from the [[axanar_kickstarter_details|earlier Kickstarter]] campaign have been shipped.(([[http://www.axanarproductions.com/mid-summer-update/|Diana Kingsbury, "Mid-Summer Update!"]], Axanar Fulfillment Blog, 7/28/16.)) > Note that patches from the //Axanar// [[axanar_indiegogo_details|Indiegogo campaign]] (from August 2015) will not begin to ship until AFTER those from the [[axanar_kickstarter_details|earlier Kickstarter]] campaign have been shipped.(([[http://www.axanarproductions.com/mid-summer-update/|Diana Kingsbury, "Mid-Summer Update!"]], Axanar Fulfillment Blog, 7/28/16.))
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 ===== ‘An Unexpected Standstill’ ===== ===== ‘An Unexpected Standstill’ =====
  
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 The post gave no details on how or why Axanar's legal representation was expanding, or whether this meant additional lawyers at [[Winston & Strawn]] had been assigned to the case, or that more attorneys from another firm were joining, as producer [[Alec Peters]] had [[http://axamonitor.com/doku.php?id=winston_strawn#second_legal_team|promised]] in February. The post gave no details on how or why Axanar's legal representation was expanding, or whether this meant additional lawyers at [[Winston & Strawn]] had been assigned to the case, or that more attorneys from another firm were joining, as producer [[Alec Peters]] had [[http://axamonitor.com/doku.php?id=winston_strawn#second_legal_team|promised]] in February.
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 +=== Likely Not, Says Spokesman ===
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 +However, Axanar spokesman Mike Bawden said there have been no changes to the legal team. "There are, of course, a number of unsolicited advisors who offer their opinions from time to time," he said, "but I'm not aware of any of them being added to the 'Axanar legal team.'"((Email from Mike Bawden to AxaMonitor editor Carlos Pedraza, 7/29/16.))
  
 ===== New Software Prepares for Perk Delivery ===== ===== New Software Prepares for Perk Delivery =====
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 ==== No More Donor Store? ==== ==== No More Donor Store? ====
  
-Tucked away in her post's final paragraph, Kingsbury referred to a "Donor Station,"(([[http://www.axanarproductions.com/mid-summer-update/|Diana Kingsbury, "Mid-Summer Update!"]], Axanar Fulfillment Blog, 7/28/16.)) a term seemingly replacing the "[[merchandise#donor_store|Donor Store]]" criticized for selling unlicensed Star Trek [[merchandise]]. Peters has [[perks#undisclosed_proceeds|refused to disclose]] how much revenue Axanar has realized from the apparently re-branded "Station." {{:axamonitor-ico.gif?nolink|}}+Tucked away in her post's final paragraph, Kingsbury referred to a "Donor Station,"(([[http://www.axanarproductions.com/mid-summer-update/|Diana Kingsbury, "Mid-Summer Update!"]], Axanar Fulfillment Blog, 7/28/16.)) a term seemingly replacing the "[[merchandise#donor_store|Donor Store]]" criticized for selling unlicensed Star Trek [[merchandise]]. Peters has [[perks#undisclosed_proceeds|refused to disclose]] how much revenue Axanar has realized from the apparently re-branded "Station." 
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 +Reached via email, Bawden said Kingsbury's post "was the first I'd heard of it."((Email from Mike Bawden to AxaMonitor editor Carlos Pedraza, 7/29/16.)) {{:axamonitor-ico.gif?nolink|}}
  
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