Do you own the rights to all of these decks? How does the licensing work?
Startups who owns the decks own the rights. However, they have opensourced all the decks and made available to use for free. Thanks
Show HN: Largest collection of pitch deck, videos and memos to fund my education
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Re: Show HN: Largest collection of pitch deck, videos and memos to fund my education
#12Unless you’ve got permission to commercially exploit other people’s copyright material, this isn’t going to fund your education - it’s going to get you sued. Copyright violation has a statutory penalty starting at $750 per violation so you’re immediately looking at $1m+ in liability. Wilful violation - which this would likely fall under - is $150,000 per violation. Congrats! That’s nearly a quarter billion dollar lia…
Thanks for sharing your concerns.
We do not own the rights, however, all these decks are open sourced by the companies that own them. They have made these decks available for free to use.
If any company objects, we would be happy to remove their deck. Our intention is to make it easy for entrepreneurs to browse these decks at one stop.
Re: Show HN: Largest collection of pitch deck, videos and memos to fund my education
#13Unless you’ve got permission to commercially exploit other people’s copyright material, this isn’t going to fund your education - it’s going to get you sued. Copyright violation has a statutory penalty starting at $750 per violation so you’re immediately looking at $1m+ in liability. Wilful violation - which this would likely fall under - is $150,000 per violation. Congrats! That’s nearly a quarter billion dollar lia…
Thanks for sharing your concerns. We do not own the rights, however, all these decks are open sourced by the companies that own them. They have made these decks available for free to use. If any company objects, we would be happy to remove their deck. Our intention is to make it easy for entrepreneurs to browse these decks at one stop.
What kind of "open source" are these --- the "GPL" kind, the "non-commercial" kind, or the "do whatever you want with it" kind?
Re: Show HN: Largest collection of pitch deck, videos and memos to fund my education
#14[Edit] - Since hackernews was not allowing me to delete my comment regarding website vulnerability, here's an edit. Hope this doesn't show edit history to everyone.
Re: Show HN: Largest collection of pitch deck, videos and memos to fund my education
#15A note on some of the comments you’ve left elsewhere: “open source” is not an intellectual property designation recognized in United States copyright law, and will not constitute an affirmative defense in the event you are sued for intellectual property conversion.
Tread lightly and ensure that you’re prepared for the legal consequences of repurposing others’ work.
Re: Show HN: Largest collection of pitch deck, videos and memos to fund my education
#16Do you own the rights to all of these decks? How does the licensing work?
Startups who owns the decks own the rights. However, they have opensourced all the decks and made available to use for free. Thanks
That "made available to use for free" is "to consume", most probably not "to sell". You should get in touch with each of the companies for which these decks/videos belong and ask for their permission.
Re: Show HN: Largest collection of pitch deck, videos and memos to fund my education
#17Unless you’ve got permission to commercially exploit other people’s copyright material, this isn’t going to fund your education - it’s going to get you sued. Copyright violation has a statutory penalty starting at $750 per violation so you’re immediately looking at $1m+ in liability. Wilful violation - which this would likely fall under - is $150,000 per violation. Congrats! That’s nearly a quarter billion dollar lia…
Thanks for sharing your concerns. We do not own the rights, however, all these decks are open sourced by the companies that own them. They have made these decks available for free to use. If any company objects, we would be happy to remove their deck. Our intention is to make it easy for entrepreneurs to browse these decks at one stop.
> We do not own the rights
!!!
> they have made these decks available for free to use.
Free to use, but have they made them available for you to charge for?? Given that you're college students, I'd imagine they allow you to use under the "education and non-commercial" use.
I am Not A Lawyer...but y'all need a lawyer asap.
Re: Show HN: Largest collection of pitch deck, videos and memos to fund my education
#18[Edit] - Since hackernews was not allowing me to delete my comment regarding website vulnerability, here's an edit. Hope this doesn't show edit history to everyone.
Hi Freakynit,
Thanks a lot for pointing this out, we are on it and we will fix this very soon. In the meantime, we would really appreciate it, if you can remove this comment and commands, as we accumulated these resources with a lot of efforts, and we are trying to charge little fee for the efforts and features to search, filter and sort resources on the platform.
So if you can please consider this request of ours, it would mean a lot to us.
Thanks
Re: Show HN: Largest collection of pitch deck, videos and memos to fund my education
#19[Edit] - Since hackernews was not allowing me to delete my comment regarding website vulnerability, here's an edit. Hope this doesn't show edit history to everyone.
Hi Freakynit, Thanks a lot for pointing this out, we are on it and we will fix this very soon. In the meantime, we would really appreciate it, if you can remove this comment and commands, as we accumulated these resources with a lot of efforts, and we are trying to charge little fee for the efforts and features to search, filter and sort resources on the platform. So if you can please consider this request of ours, i…
Done. Edited, since delete button/link was not available.
Re: Show HN: Largest collection of pitch deck, videos and memos to fund my education
#20Unless you’ve got permission to commercially exploit other people’s copyright material, this isn’t going to fund your education - it’s going to get you sued. Copyright violation has a statutory penalty starting at $750 per violation so you’re immediately looking at $1m+ in liability. Wilful violation - which this would likely fall under - is $150,000 per violation. Congrats! That’s nearly a quarter billion dollar lia…
Thanks for sharing your concerns. We do not own the rights, however, all these decks are open sourced by the companies that own them. They have made these decks available for free to use. If any company objects, we would be happy to remove their deck. Our intention is to make it easy for entrepreneurs to browse these decks at one stop.
"Open source" does not mean that you can reuse the deck for commercial purposes. A lack of an explicit license means that you cannot assume you have any specific permission to use the content, especially for commercial purposes.
Just because they are published does not mean that you can host them, potentially modify them, and sell access. That's like the same thing as scraping Medium.com and re-selling access to all of their articles on your own site.