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+ | ====== Peters Wades Into Salary, Profit Debate ====== | ||
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+ | <wrap lo>**By [[user> | ||
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+ | Starting the week of October 3, 2016, producer [[Alec Peters]] moved to deal with increasing criticism from Axanar' | ||
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+ | ===== Peters Paid Himself Salary ===== | ||
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+ | One backer, David Lein, challenged Peters' | ||
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+ | > Just wow. No one was making a profit yet [[http:// | ||
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+ | //**__True or False? | ||
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+ | ==== Paying it Back ==== | ||
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+ | 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:// | ||
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+ | Lein did not appear to be convinced by Peters' | ||
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+ | > Two and a half years is a drop in the bucket compared to some projects I have seen. As for working for free, that's the nature of fan films, be it Star Trek, Doctor Who or Star Wars. Nobody makes money off it and everybody … shares the load. They do it for free because it is their passion. <wrap hi>It doesn' | ||
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+ | ==== Working Full Time ==== | ||
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+ | Peters justified paying himself because he worked full time on his project. " | ||
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+ | ===== Axanar' | ||
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+ | Lein questioned the premise of Peters' | ||
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+ | That led to three successive posts by Peters: | ||
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+ | > 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? | ||
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+ | * Documenting Axanar Productions status as a for-profit corporation in the state of California. | ||
+ | * Demonstrating Peters' | ||
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+ | This was further supported by federal [[judge_r._gary_klausner|Judge R. Gary Klausner]] in dismissing Axanar' | ||
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+ | > Although it is unclear whether Defendants stand to earn a profit from the Axanar Works, <wrap hi> | ||
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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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