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- marcostill
what is the deal with this site? are the funds raised legit? it seems to good to be true.
for example. this person raised almost $3,000 to fund building a website.
- appalled0
legit
- geoffism0
from what I know, legit. You may have seen this:
- dskz0
legitimundo.
- imbecile0
bump
- Thesocialgospel0
My friends raised money for a tour van with that site, they just offered weird goodies for different levels of donations. Raised $4000, and its totally legit.
- bzsaw0
Yes legit.. I've backed a few projects and plan to put one up as soon as my plate clears.
- martinadolfsson0
I have only good things to say about this site, I managed to raise $3400 in less then a month for my book project. Of course most of the support comes from friends and followers but I would say about 30% of the people who donated are complete strangers.
- martinadolfsson0
and a link to my project:
http://kck.st/gqqLbA
- Amicus0
Maybe the book project should be funded via kickstarter, not that I have anything worth putting in it.
- sandbag0
I am using Kickstarter for my band project. To produce our next CD and merchandise.
Take a look. I'd love to know what you think.- You left out the donation level where I get to wrestle the "Shimmy Sisters" in a small pool of KY jelly.Andrew_D
- Good luck, sandbag. I was checking out [and enjoying] the music on http://danyavaad.com….
melq - Andrew.... let's start the bidding war!
sandbag - Hahaha...best of luck, Sandbag. ;-)Andrew_D
- awesome :)sea_sea
- we got funded for over $7000!sandbag
- ernexbcn0
It's completely legit and awesome.
- One again, read Rules and Conduct before proceedingVikingKingEleven
- Boz0
it's legit and very good way to raise money if you don't want to depend on anyone.
- VikingKingEleven0
When submitting your ideas who owns the rights?
- you retain all rights, kickstarter doesn't get any
sandbag - that is not trueVikingKingEleven
- Ok. You retain rights, they can use it to promote themselves.sandbag
- you retain all rights, kickstarter doesn't get any
- VikingKingEleven0
read Rules and Conduct before you go further.
http://www.kickstarter.com/terms…- i have read that... seemed ok to me. Did you notice anything?sandbag
- VikingKingEleven0
excuse me, read intellectual property rights.
- VikingKingEleven0
Here is the important part.
"Intellectual Property Rights — Project Creators
The Service provides you with the ability upload your content to the Site. Company will not have any ownership rights in your content, however, Company needs the following license to perform the Service. You hereby grant to Company the worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, right to (and to allow others acting on its behalf to) (i) use, host, display, and otherwise perform the Service on your behalf (e.g., use, host, stream, transmit, playback, transcode, copy, display, feature, market, sell, distribute and otherwise exploit ("Host") the content, along with all associated copyrightable works or metadata, including without limitation photographs, graphics, and descriptive text ("Artworks") in connection with the Service); (ii) (and to allow other users to) stream, transmit, playback, download, display, feature, distribute, collect, and otherwise use the content and Artworks; and (iii) use and publish, and to permit others to use and publish, the name(s), trademarks, likenesses, and personal and biographical materials of you and the members of your group, in connection with the provision of the Service.You agree to pay all royalties and other amounts owed to any person or entity due to your submission of your content to the Service or the Company’s Hosting of the content as contemplated by these Terms of Use.
To enable Company to Host your content pursuant to the above provisions, you hereby grant to Company the worldwide, non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free, sublicensable and transferable right to use, reproduce, copy, and display your trademarks, service marks, slogans, logos or similar proprietary rights (collectively, the "Trademarks") solely in connection with the Service.
Intellectual Property Rights — Users
The Service may provide users with the ability to add, create, upload, submit, distribute, collect, or post ("Submitting" or "Submission") content, videos, audio clips, written forum comments, data, text, photographs, software, scripts, graphics, or other information to the Site (collectively, the "User Submissions"). By Submitting User Submissions on the Site or otherwise through the Service, you:acknowledge that by Submitting any User Submission to the Site, you are publishing that User Submission, and that you may be identified publicly by your User ID in association with any such User Submission;
by Submitting any User Submissions through the Site or the Service, you hereby do and shall grant Company a worldwide, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, fully paid, sublicensable and transferable license to use, edit, modify, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, perform, and otherwise fully exploit the User Submissions in connection with the Site, the Service and Company’s (and its successors and assigns’) business, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the Site (and derivative works thereof) or the Service in any media formats and through any media channels (including, without limitation, third party websites). You also hereby do and shall grant each user of the Site and/or the Service a non-exclusive license to access your User Submissions through the Site and the Service, and to use, edit, modify, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display and perform such User Submissions solely for personal, non-commercial use. For clarity, the foregoing license grant to Company does not affect your other ownership or license rights in your User Submission(s), including the right to grant additional licenses to the material in your User Submission(s), unless otherwise agreed in writing;
represent and warrant, and can demonstrate to Company’s full satisfaction upon request that you (i) own or otherwise control all rights to all content in your User Submissions, or that the content in such User Submissions is in the public domain, (ii) you have full authority to act on behalf of any and all owners of any right, title or interest in and to any content in your User Submissions to use such content as contemplated by these Terms of Use and to grant the license rights set forth above, (iii) you have the permission to use the name and likeness of each identifiable individual person and to use such individual’s identifying or personal information as contemplated by these Terms of Use; and (iv) you are authorized to grant all of the aforementioned rights to the User Submissions to Company and all users of the Service;
you agree to pay all royalties and other amounts owed to any person or entity due to your Submission of any User Submissions to the Service;
that the use or other exploitation of such User Submissions by Company and use or other exploitation by users of the Site and Service as contemplated by this Agreement will not infringe or violate the rights of any third party, including without limitation any privacy rights, publicity rights, copyrights, contract rights, or any other intellectual property or proprietary rights; and
understand that Company shall have the right to delete, edit, modify, reformat, excerpt, or translate any materials, content or information submitted by you; and that all information publicly posted or privately transmitted through the Site is the sole responsibility of the person from which such content originated and that Company will not be liable for any errors or omissions in any content; and that Company cannot guarantee the identity of any other users with whom you may interact in the course of using the Service.
Company does not endorse and has no control over any User Submission. Company cannot guarantee the authenticity of any data which users may provide about themselves. You acknowledge that all Content accessed by you using the Service is at your own risk and you will be solely responsible for any damage or loss to any party resulting therefrom."- What is 'Other Amounts Owed?'VikingKingEleven
- Kickstart has the right to copy you r work and profit outside of the investors that contributed.VikingKingEleven
- Maybe if I upload an image that I don't have rights to, or something.sandbag
- Sometimes, which is to say quite often, you're too paranoid.detritus
- They can, but only in connection with Kickstarter.com... they can't start another site with my contentsandbag
- BTW.. thanks Viking.. someone's gotta read the fine print!sandbag
- sandbag0
Viking. Kickstarter can use anything I upload to promote themselves. I'm ok with that.
- ben_0
I'd say it's a fair trade-off for a funding platform "hey look at what our company was able to help someone create, do, etc". I know a few people who've used kickstarter successfully and have rave reviews of it.
- Boz0
Scott Wilson from MINIMAL got a million dollars for an ipod nano watch product..
- cbass990
Raised $112,000 on this one...