{"id":489622,"date":"2023-09-24T20:01:28","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T14:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=489622"},"modified":"2023-09-24T20:14:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T14:44:11","slug":"hob-hony-law-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/trending\/hob-hony-law-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"Viral video: Humans of Bombay founder Karishma Mehta\u2019s old video saying idea came out of blue goes viral after Humans of New York founder Brandon Stanton\u2019s\u00a0criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Humans of Bombay\u2019s founder Karishma Mehta\u2019s old video has been going viral on social media platforms. The incident started with Mehta\u2019s company, Humans of Bombay, filed a lawsuit against Humans Of India over copyright infringement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This case got the attention of the Humans of New York\u2019s founder Brandon Stanton. Speaking on the issue, Stanton took to X, formerly Twitter and criticised Mehta\u2019s company HOB\u2019s step of sending a legal notice for copyright infringement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>HONY\u2019s founder said he stayed quiet on the appropriation of my work because according to him HOB shares important stories, even if they&#8217;ve monetised far past anything I&#8217;d feel comfortable doing on HONY, Brandon Stanton added. But you can&#8217;t be suing people for what I&#8217;ve forgiven you for, the HONY founder said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I&#39;ve stayed quiet on the appropriation of my work because I think <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HumansOfBombay?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@HumansOfBombay<\/a> shares important stories, even if they&#39;ve monetized far past anything I&#39;d feel comfortable doing on HONY. But you can&#39;t be suing people for what I&#39;ve forgiven you for. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0jZM05YyTt\">https:\/\/t.co\/0jZM05YyTt<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Brandon Stanton (@humansofny) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/humansofny\/status\/1705574758450893126?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 23, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In this cold war, an old video of Karishma Mehta is going viral. In the video, she talks about the inception of HOB and how the idea came to her spontaneously. She expressed that it felt like the perfect fit for her and she decided to start it without any hesitation. Reflecting on the experience, she shares that starting something new during that time was an amazing experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In the words of Karishma Mehta, &quot;Completely randomly and out of the blue, I stumbled upon the idea of Humans of Bombay&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/humansofny?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@humansofny<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qLAE3cgxIY\">pic.twitter.com\/qLAE3cgxIY<\/a><\/p>&mdash; nikhiilist (@nikhiilist) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nikhiilist\/status\/1705826223543525531?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 24, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Later in the video, she discusses her struggles and how the organisation didn&#8217;t generate any income for the first three years. She relied on pocket money from her parents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Karishma is getting trolled on social media platforms after Humans of New York founder Brandon Stanton\u2019s reaction and accusations of copying his idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Karishma Mehta founded Humans of Bombay, a storytelling platform in India similar to Humans of New York, as a Facebook page in 2014. It has gained a large following since then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A lawsuit was recently filed by the platform against People of India for copyright infringement in the Delhi High Court, which Brandon was not happy about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking on the issue, Stanton took to X, formerly Twitter and criticised Mehta\u2019s company HOB\u2019s step of sending a legal notice for copyright infringement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":489626,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[110599],"tags":[160757,160758,107178],"yst_prominent_words":[4004,36259,3704,79507,26195,4370,5605,26183,4133],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2023\/09\/24193245\/HOB.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489622"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=489622"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=489622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->