The Preliminary Settlement of Crowdsourcing Legal Issues

Crowdsourcing was defined as the act of taking tasks traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, and outsourcing them to a group (crowd) of people or community in the form of an open call. The legal issues of crowdsourcing is mainly manifested in three aspects: the legal relationship between contract-issuing party and WitKey, the risk of misuse of personal information and the protection of intellectual property rights. Initial solutions to the problems include: to sign an underlying contract, disclosure of basic information on contract-issuing party and the provisions of fixed and processing personal information about Witkey.