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Intellectual Property

Jan. 12, 2024

Content subscription platform says rival poached talent

The complaint, filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court, claims Passes’ founder and CEO Lucy Guo copied others’ ideas, lured creators with unsustainable, loss-leading minimum guarantees, and subscribers with “drip pricing” and junk fees.

Online content subscription platform Fanfix accused Miami-based startup Passes of copying its product, poaching its talent and other anti-competitive practices.

The complaint, filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court, claims Passes’ founder and CEO Lucy Guo copied others’ ideas, lured creators with unsustainable, loss-leading minimum guarantees, and subscribers with “drip pricing” and junk fees. It includes two screenshots of Guo’s tweet...

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