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Crowd-sourcing giveth and taketh: WikiTravel's painful lesson

When Internet Brands bought the Web site Wikitravel in 2005 for $1.7 million from the two developers who had created it, the company got the site and the name, as well as a community of thousands of volunteers who generated the travel guidance that brought the audience. Seven years later, they are in court fighting with the community that made them. Original Story

source: The New York Times

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