Differences
This shows you the differences between two versions of the page.
Previous revision | |||
— | gofundme [Unknown date] (current) – external edit (Unknown date) 127.0.0.1 | ||
---|---|---|---|
Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
+ | {{:: | ||
+ | ====== Crowd Fund for Axanar Expenses Abruptly Ended ====== | ||
+ | |||
+ | **//Peters Cancels Campaign After Blogger Admits Axanar is Out of Money, Sought $45,000//** | ||
+ | |||
+ | {{TOC}} | ||
+ | < | ||
+ | //**__ __**// <wrap lo>**By [[user> | ||
+ | </ | ||
+ | |||
+ | A GoFundMe campaign aiming to raise $45,000 to pay three months' | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===== Axanar' | ||
+ | |||
+ | Titled "We Stand With Axanar," | ||
+ | |||
+ | [{{ :: | ||
+ | |||
+ | > Already, Alec has put more than $150,000 of his own money into " | ||
+ | |||
+ | On Kickstarter more than a week later, Peters revealed he had personally paid for months of the rent of Industry Studios, his commercial soundstage paid for with donor dollars, entitling him to use the space as he saw fit, including setting up a [[wp> | ||
+ | |||
+ | Lane posted in a comment on his blog that he took down the page at Peters' | ||
+ | |||
+ | <WRAP right box 300px> | ||
+ | **Inside the Studio** | ||
+ | {{gallery> | ||
+ | </ | ||
+ | |||
+ | > Alec asked me to take down the GoFundMe site. It is now down. Not wanting him to be involved with it in any way until it was officially launched, I didn’t tell him I’d put it up online in the first place. When he found out about it, I got a call very quickly.((Jonathan Lane, comment, [[http:// | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===== Independent Fundraising Effort ===== | ||
+ | |||
+ | As a formally independent crowdfund, controlled by Lane, this new money might very well have been beyond the reach of any damages or monetary settlement stemming from the [[copyright infringement]] lawsuit Peters faces from [[CBS]] and [[Paramount Pictures]]. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Lane insisted he set up the campaign without Peters' | ||
+ | |||
+ | > Alec Peters does not know I am doing this. He will learn about it when I take this live. Alec himself can't do any more crowd-funding while a lawsuit is going on, but I can. WE can.(([[https:// | ||
+ | |||
+ | Lane portrayed Axanar' | ||
+ | |||
+ | [{{ : | ||
+ | |||
+ | Oddly, Lane set up the GoFundMe page on October 29, yet on November 2 he posted this reply to a supporter' | ||
+ | |||
+ | > Hmmmm… Not a bad idea! Alec can’t really crowd-fund right now. Well, technically, | ||
+ | |||
+ | Of course by the time of that posting, his GoFundMe page had been up for four days. | ||
+ | ===== Axanar' | ||
+ | |||
+ | The notion that, after accumulating $1.4 million from [[crowdfunding_platforms|crowdfunding]] and [[merchandise]] sales, Axanar was out of money raised questions about Peters' | ||
+ | |||
+ | > Defendants produced the financial information … in an effort to be cooperative and avoid wasting the Court’s time on discovery disputes. <wrap hi> | ||
+ | |||
+ | <WRAP right round box 50%> | ||
+ | //**__«But we’re so close to the finish line! If we can just keep the lights on for a few more months, this case can play out in court.»__**// | ||
+ | </ | ||
+ | |||
+ | <wrap lo>//See also: [[order_fact_check|Loosening Restrictions on Financial Information]]//</ | ||
+ | |||
+ | For their part, the studios' | ||
+ | |||
+ | > The material in that document may embarrass Mr. Peters by showing the ways in which he spent funds that were raised from Star Trek fans. This is not a proper basis for designating a document as Highly Confidential.((Plaintiffs’ Ex Parte Application for Order, Memorandum of Points and Authorities, | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== Where the Money Went ==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | As of January 2016, when Axanar’s Indiegogo campaign was shuttered by the lawsuit, **AxaMonitor** [[ambition_vs._achievement# | ||
+ | |||
+ | <WRAP right round box 50%> | ||
+ | //**__It became apparent Lane began to delete negative comments from the GoFundMe page.__**// | ||
+ | </ | ||
+ | |||
+ | === Burn Rate === | ||
+ | |||
+ | Meanwhile, in its April 2, 2016, FAQ, Axanar explained the amount of cash it has on hand changes by the month: | ||
+ | |||
+ | > The amount of money left over from [Indiegogo] changes every month due to the “burn rate” of maintaining the studio while Axanar Productions works through the details of the lawsuit.(([[http:// | ||
+ | |||
+ | Lane pegged Axanar' | ||
+ | ===== Appealing to Fans ===== | ||
+ | |||
+ | Lane's appeal to fans consisted of painting Axanar as a victim of studio intimidation on the brink of financial ruin, followed by a standard tactic used in election campaign fundraising: | ||
+ | |||
+ | > But we're so close to the finish line! If we can just keep the lights on for a few more months, this case can play out in court and we'll all know the conclusion … good or bad. HELP US REACH THE FINISH LINE!(([[https:// | ||
+ | |||
+ | [{{ : | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== Using Donor Mailing Lists ==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | The GoFundMe page didn't indicate how Lane had planned to reach out to Axanar' | ||
+ | |||
+ | Since the GoFundMe effort is technically independent of Axanar, Lane should not have had access to donor mailing lists gathered by Peters' | ||
+ | |||
+ | <wrap lo>//See also: [[propworx-email|Donors Complain Company Spammed Using Axanar List]]//</ | ||
+ | |||
+ | === Earlier Donor Spamming === | ||
+ | |||
+ | Kickstarter' | ||
+ | |||
+ | "There are right ways and wrong ways to go about using email solicitations," | ||
+ | |||
+ | <WRAP right round box 50%> | ||
+ | //**__« [Axanar] is nearly out of money now. I wasn’t supposed to tell you that. »__**// — //Jonathan Lane, Fan Film Factor blogger// | ||
+ | </ | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===== Reactions ===== | ||
+ | |||
+ | As of this post, the only comments on the GoFundMe page were negative. Axanar donor Rob Roberson' | ||
+ | |||
+ | > I will happily donate to the cause the day after we all get to look at Axanar' | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== Deleting Negative Comments ==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | It became apparent Lane began to [[https:// | ||
+ | |||
+ | One commenter reacted to the deletions: "You can delete all the comments you want. More will replace the ones you axe." | ||
+ | |||
+ | [{{ :: | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== Money Raised ==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | In the first six days of Lane's effort, the campaign had received a single $5 donation — from Dennis Bailey, a former Star Trek writer and fan producer who has been a vocal critic of Axanar. Ostensibly, as a donor, his comment (a statement calling to account [[wp> | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | **Keywords** {{tag> |