Crowdsourcing and related intellectual property and Labor law regulation Issues: A review and research agenda

Crowdsourcing is known as new phenomenon that shifts the conventional way of jobs performed by employees or determined firm into new phase of sourcing to the network of people (or the crowd). Such creative way is giving firms and freelancers benefits of using collective intelligence from the crowd to complete business tasks. However, still each party participating in one crowdsourcing campaign needs to answer some new legal questions.

In this article, the authors try to explore the concept of crowdsourcing and legal risks relating to this context from two point of view: Solver (member of the Crowd) with their intellectual property ownership, and Crowdsourcer (company or firm or anyone who has problem which need to be solved by crowd) with labor law regulations country versus country.

Even though crowdsourcing has received a lot of attention from us as crowdsourcer or solver but till now we may not yet have very obvious answers about Crowdsourcing versus Labor Law and Intellectual Property issues related for business. This paper tries to observe this phenomenon from these legal consideration aspects.