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.
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.
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.
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> 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.
But we will carefully think and act on this by consulting our lawyer. We really appreciate your comment. Thanks.
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.
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
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.
For alternative revenue options, check my other comment starting with "Here are 3 alternative ideas that you can work on to make some money"
It might be just me, but it would appear they are banking on 1) no individual start-up is going to bother to sue them over a slide deck because it's expensive, and 2) those who do notice the infringements would recognise that suing a group of debt-laden students/graduates won't amount to anything (hence the emphasis on "doing this to fund education" aspect).
Just because they have made them available that does not mean that you can sell them.