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 Gingerboom encouraged prospective backers to donate before the limited number of book copies were ordered, adding he hoped for a second campaign would allow for another printing if he could stay "within the allowed crowdfunding amount, but I can't guarantee that second printing."(([[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/engingerboom/star-trek-shenzhou-a-star-trek-discovery-fanbook| Star Trek: Shenzhou Kickstarter page]], retrieved 7/7/18.)) Gingerboom encouraged prospective backers to donate before the limited number of book copies were ordered, adding he hoped for a second campaign would allow for another printing if he could stay "within the allowed crowdfunding amount, but I can't guarantee that second printing."(([[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/engingerboom/star-trek-shenzhou-a-star-trek-discovery-fanbook| Star Trek: Shenzhou Kickstarter page]], retrieved 7/7/18.))
  
-[{{https://www.kicktraq.com/projects/engingerboom/star-trek-shenzhou-a-star-trek-discovery-fanbook/minichart.png|**TRACKING THE KICKSTARTER** The stats website, Kicktraq keeps tabs on the progress of the "Star Trek: Shenzou" book publication project. The £2,000 goal is equivalent to USD$2,657. This graphic updates upon refresh.}}]+[{{https://www.kicktraq.com/projects/engingerboom/star-trek-shenzhou-a-star-trek-discovery-fanbook/minichart.png|**TRACKING THE KICKSTARTER** The crowdfunding statistics website, Kicktraq, keeps tabs on the progress of the "Star Trek: Shenzou" book publication project. The £2,000 goal is equivalent to USD$2,657. //This graphic updates upon refresh//.}}]
  
 ==== Running Afoul of CBS Guidelines ==== ==== Running Afoul of CBS Guidelines ====
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 "Star Trek: Shenzhou" is not the first crowdfunded fan-produced book, however. "Star Trek: Shenzhou" is not the first crowdfunded fan-produced book, however.
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 +==== Fender's ‘Four Years War’ Series ====
  
 Author Stephen Fender ran a series of Kickstarter campaigns from 2014 to 2015, publishing four unauthorized novels and technical manual chronicling "The Four Years War" — the conflict between Star Trek's United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire, as well as a series of novels about Earth's Romulan War. Author Stephen Fender ran a series of Kickstarter campaigns from 2014 to 2015, publishing four unauthorized novels and technical manual chronicling "The Four Years War" — the conflict between Star Trek's United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire, as well as a series of novels about Earth's Romulan War.
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 [{{ :captain-peters-1.jpg?nolink|**ALEC PETERS**}}] [{{ :captain-peters-1.jpg?nolink|**ALEC PETERS**}}]
  
-==== The Axanar Connection ====+=== The Axanar Connection ===
  
 Fender's "Four Years War" is the same one that was to be tackled in the unmade feature, //[[Axanar]]//, produced by OWC Studios head [[Alec Peters]], who has cited Fender's novels as part of his inspiration for //Axanar//. Fender's "Four Years War" is the same one that was to be tackled in the unmade feature, //[[Axanar]]//, produced by OWC Studios head [[Alec Peters]], who has cited Fender's novels as part of his inspiration for //Axanar//.
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 Also, Fender deleted his Kickstarter account,(([[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1910450936/star-trek-the-four-years-war-technical-manual|The Romulan War and Four Years War Tech Manual Kickstarter campaign]], retrieved 7/7/18.)) though his [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1910450936/star-trek-the-four-years-war-technical-manual|Kickstarter campaigns]]' pages remain on the crowdfunding site. Also, Fender deleted his Kickstarter account,(([[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1910450936/star-trek-the-four-years-war-technical-manual|The Romulan War and Four Years War Tech Manual Kickstarter campaign]], retrieved 7/7/18.)) though his [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1910450936/star-trek-the-four-years-war-technical-manual|Kickstarter campaigns]]' pages remain on the crowdfunding site.
  
-===== Mixed Fan Reactions =====+[{{ ::ladies_of_kirk.jpg|CBS allowed this fan publication on condition the author never sell Star Trek merchandise again. <wrap lo>//Image/'Ladies of Kirk' Kickstarter//</wrap>}}] 
 + 
 +==== ‘The Ladies of Kirk’ ==== 
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 +A 2015 Kickstarter-funded fan publication, "[[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/336065921/ladies-of-kirk/description|The Ladies of Kirk]]," by Kelley McMorris, raised $11,253 before CBS' attorneys stepped in.  
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 +The book was advertised as "an illustrated guide to all the women Captain Kirk ever kissed."(([[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/336065921/ladies-of-kirk/description|'The Ladies of Kirk' Kickstarter page]], retrieved 7/8/18.)) 
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 +CBS allowed McMorris to fulfill the promised rewards for the book on one condition, as McMorris explained to backers: 
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 +> Unfortunately there will be no more Trek-related projects from me. A few weeks after the Kickstarter ended, I was contacted by CBS' legal team about my unauthorized use of the copyrighted Star Trek content. They graciously allowed me to fulfill my promises to my Kickstarter backers if, basically, I agreed not to sell any more Star Trek stuff. On the bright side, that means that all your Ladies of Kirk copies are super limited edition!(([[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/336065921/ladies-of-kirk/posts/1395605|Ladies of Kirk Kickstarter page]], Update #13, 10/27/15.)) 
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 +===== Mixed Fan Reactions to ‘Shenzhou’ =====
  
-While "Star Trek: Shenzhou"'s Kickstarter fared well in its first week, it garnered few comments from donors. In other forums, however, Star Trek fans wondered about "Shenzhou"'s likelihood to attract a "[[copyright_infringement#what_does_copyright_protect|cease and desist]]" letter from CBS' attorneys.+While the "Star Trek: Shenzhou" Kickstarter fared well in its first week, it garnered few comments from donors. In other forums, however, Star Trek fans wondered about "Shenzhou"'s likelihood to attract a "[[copyright_infringement#what_does_copyright_protect|cease and desist]]" letter from CBS' attorneys.
  
 On Facebook's Fan Film Forum, a generally pro-Axanar discussion group, former fan producer Kelly Rhodes, forced to have "scrapped my plans due to the fan film guideline restrictions," said he believed "the guidelines should either apply to all Trek fan productions or none. It is infuriating that all Trek fan production media but films can call it Star Trek and offer incentives to backers. The guidelines target and attack one fan medium.  I know CBS and Paramount do this because their medium is live action productions and that’s all they really care about. Still, it's frustrating when other Trek fan production mediums can still do what Trek fan film makers have been told they can’t do."(([[face>groups/fanfilmforum/permalink/741438512863517/?comment_id=741953422812026&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R1%22%7D|Kelly Rhodes comment, Fan Film Forum]] Facebook group, 7/7/18.)) On Facebook's Fan Film Forum, a generally pro-Axanar discussion group, former fan producer Kelly Rhodes, forced to have "scrapped my plans due to the fan film guideline restrictions," said he believed "the guidelines should either apply to all Trek fan productions or none. It is infuriating that all Trek fan production media but films can call it Star Trek and offer incentives to backers. The guidelines target and attack one fan medium.  I know CBS and Paramount do this because their medium is live action productions and that’s all they really care about. Still, it's frustrating when other Trek fan production mediums can still do what Trek fan film makers have been told they can’t do."(([[face>groups/fanfilmforum/permalink/741438512863517/?comment_id=741953422812026&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R1%22%7D|Kelly Rhodes comment, Fan Film Forum]] Facebook group, 7/7/18.))