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Re:YC 2010 startup needs journalists as early users by brandnewlow on Monday March 01, 2010 @04:30PM (#1159830)
I'm really interested to see how they'll handle liability. If they want to make a lot of money, I'm going to guess the founders won't be vetting anything before it gets published. However, if they're pushing it on Reddit, writing the checks, selling the stuff to other publishers, I'd find it hard to see a DMCA claim holding up. At that point they're doing a lot more than for their content creators than Youtube or Scribd, making them accomplices in any libel lawsuit that might come up.

Will they go to the wall for one of their writers? Doubtful.

So do they have a new angle on the legal side of things?

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Re:YC 2010 startup needs journalists as early users by stealthyc2010 on Tuesday March 02, 2010 @06:28AM (#1161126)
Interesting question. I'm guessing since you ask about the DCMA you're asking about copyright. Well, we'll vet all our writers, and it should be no problem at all. We'll also delay payment of new writers so that there is no way to do some kind of grab-and-dash.

Its also much much much easier to search for copyrighted material in text than in video or flash content. I can't imagine solving this will be a hard problem.

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