Tag: law

COLLABORATIVE PIONEER: INSIDE INTERVIEW WITH ABE GEIGER, FOUNDER OF SHAKE LAW

Abe Geiger is the founder of Shake, an app that allows you to create legally binding agreements in a matter of seconds. This is a major step forward in the sharing economy, making it easier for microentrepreneurs and freelancers to establish trust and protect themselves in transactions. Whether it’s renting out your car or hiring…  Read more

Does the sharing economy break the law? What’s different in the Arab world?

“For Martin Varsavsky, founder of Fon, legal issues interfere with the sharing economy in moments when you ‘want to share [things] that we realized are not really yours exactly the way you thought.’ For instance, he illustrates, you can’t really share the digital music that you own, because of laws and regulations. And sometimes, collaborative consumption…  Read more

The Shareable Food Movement Meets The Law

The Health Department didn’t show up when I made dinner for my neighbors last night. Fortunately, our health and safety laws don’t usually dictate how we prepare food in our personal and private realms. But humans have a natural tendency, an urge to feed each other, and the shareable food movement is taking that to…  Read more