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Re: Show HN: Largest collection of pitch deck, videos and memos to fund my education

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Post by saaaaaam »

mrayushsoni wrote: post #12
saaaaaam wrote: post #9

Unless 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.

Not sure what you mean by “open sourced” here.

Just because they have made them available that does not mean that you can sell them.

Re: Show HN: Largest collection of pitch deck, videos and memos to fund my education

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Post by mrayushsoni »

valbaca wrote: post #17
mrayushsoni wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Hi Valbaca, thanks for the comment, we are operating under the assumption that freely shared resources can be shared further, and we are only charging for the platform and the features we are providing like filtering, accessibility, ui and real time availability and updates, plus we will be adding more resources and features, that's what for which we are charging a fee.

But we will carefully think and act on this by consulting our lawyer. We really appreciate your comment. Thanks.

Re: Show HN: Largest collection of pitch deck, videos and memos to fund my education

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Post by mrayushsoni »

RyEgswuCsn wrote: post #13
mrayushsoni wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Hi RyEgswuCsn,

I think these resources are not exactly open source, these are more like freely shared resources, as we are students, we didn't knew enough about legal stuff, so we have decided to consult a lawyer, and we will act on this, and make sure we do not break any rules.

Until then, we would really appreciate if you can upvote and share about us with early stage entrepreneurs who can benefit from FundingFyre.

We really appreciate your advice, thanks a lot.

Re: Show HN: Largest collection of pitch deck, videos and memos to fund my education

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Post by freakynit »

Here are 3 alternative ideas that you can work on to make some money:

1. Provide summaries of each deck/video

2. Provide search engine that links to these decks/videos in their original locations

3. Setup a "video event" where you teach potential enterpreneurs what you yourselves have learned reading these decks/videos. Try to target college/school goers mostly since you folks yourselves do not have any real-world experience.

None of these might fetch you as much as you planned to do by selling decks/videos directly, but, are better than nothing. Not to mention, you yourselves would learn a lot.

And yes, don't be saddened. First time is generally the hardest and most error prone :)

Re: Show HN: Largest collection of pitch deck, videos and memos to fund my education

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Post by fleetwoodsnack »

mrayushsoni wrote: post #22
valbaca wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

Hi Valbaca, thanks for the comment, we are operating under the assumption that freely shared resources can be shared further, and we are only charging for the platform and the features we are providing like filtering, accessibility, ui and real time availability and updates, plus we will be adding more resources and features, that's what for which we are charging a fee. But we will carefully think and act on this by…

> we are operating under the assumption that freely shared resources can be shared further

Disabuse yourself of this and contact your lawyer ASAP. There is a non-zero chance that the audience of this site shares members with employees and owners of the startups from whom you’ve repurposed these materials.

A cease-and-desist is among the milder responses you can expect, and in the event you are sued you will be compelled to provide a legal response which will mean hiring a litigator.

If you truly are students struggling to pay for your education this an extravagance that your alleged financial situation does not have the means to support.

Re: Show HN: Largest collection of pitch deck, videos and memos to fund my education

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Post by freakynit »

mrayushsoni wrote: post #23
RyEgswuCsn wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What kind of "open source" are these --- the "GPL" kind, the "non-commercial" kind, or the "do whatever you want with it" kind?

Hi RyEgswuCsn, I think these resources are not exactly open source, these are more like freely shared resources, as we are students, we didn't knew enough about legal stuff, so we have decided to consult a lawyer, and we will act on this, and make sure we do not break any rules. Until then, we would really appreciate if you can upvote and share about us with early stage entrepreneurs who can benefit from FundingFyre.…

My suggestion: don't wait for lawyer'ing up. Take the hosted content down right now before it's too late. I know you folks must have put in a lot of effort, but it's nothing compared to what legal stuff can get you into.

For alternative revenue options, check my other comment starting with "Here are 3 alternative ideas that you can work on to make some money"

Re: Show HN: Largest collection of pitch deck, videos and memos to fund my education

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Post by mrayushsoni »

freakynit wrote: post #24

Here are 3 alternative ideas that you can work on to make some money: 1. Provide summaries of each deck/video 2. Provide search engine that links to these decks/videos in their original locations 3. Setup a "video event" where you teach potential enterpreneurs what you yourselves have learned reading these decks/videos. Try to target college/school goers mostly since you folks yourselves do not have any real-world ex…

Hi Freakynit,

Really appreciate all your advice and support on the post and thanks a lot for sharing your thoughtful responses. These are great alternative options and we will certainly consider these alternatives and think on them. Thanks again :)

Re: Show HN: Largest collection of pitch deck, videos and memos to fund my education

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Post by mrayushsoni »

fleetwoodsnack wrote: post #25
mrayushsoni wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi Valbaca, thanks for the comment, we are operating under the assumption that freely shared resources can be shared further, and we are only charging for the platform and the features we are providing like filtering, accessibility, ui and real time availability and updates, plus we will be adding more resources and features, that's what for which we are charging a fee. But we will carefully think and act on this by…

> we are operating under the assumption that freely shared resources can be shared further Disabuse yourself of this and contact your lawyer ASAP. There is a non-zero chance that the audience of this site shares members with employees and owners of the startups from whom you’ve repurposed these materials. A cease-and-desist is among the milder responses you can expect, and in the event you are sued you will be compel…

Hi fleetwoodsnack,

Thanks for your advice, you are correct as that financial situation could be a huge problem for us.

We are getting in touch with our family legal advisor and based on their response we will take necessary action.

Again, thanks for your advice, appreciate it

Re: Show HN: Largest collection of pitch deck, videos and memos to fund my education

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Post by mrayushsoni »

philip1209 wrote: post #20
mrayushsoni wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Hi Philip1209,

Thanks for your response, we are considering your response and of others who have pointed this out, we are in process of legal consultation and we will act accordingly. Thanks for your response, really appreciate it.

Re: Show HN: Largest collection of pitch deck, videos and memos to fund my education

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Post by abhishek_soni »

freakynit wrote: post #19
mrayushsoni wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Hi Freakynit, I am Abhishek, one of the co-founder of FundingFyre.

Thanks for pointing it out and then editing it from public view. I and our whole team is really grateful to you for all your support and advice and also, we really wish you great success in whatever you do!

Also, we are always available and happy to chat at info@fundingfyre.com or you can hit me up at abhishek@fundingfyre.com for any support regarding fundingfyre.com or for anything.

Cheers :)

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