RETRACTED ARTICLE: Issues of crowdsourcing and mobile app development through the intellectual property protection of third parties

With multiple advances in innovative technologies and crowdfunding platforms for businesses, the process of crowdsourcing is associated with some security issues that are rather difficult to assess at the stage of project preparation. Security and privacy issues of applying crowdsourcing to mobile app-related projects are an important matter to discuss and pose an assessment challenge. This work offers an approach that allows assessing project safety based on a range of fairly general criteria. The meta-analysis touches upon factors affecting the level of responsibility for intellectual property rights protection, with were screened from various reports on completed crowdsourcing campaigns. Based on the results of meta-analysis, criteria for assessing security and interests of various parties in the crowdsourcing campaign were established. These criteria allow evaluating both the project success and the protection of the rights of participants in the project, including ethical and legal consequences. It can be concluded that even the most ordinary member of the “crowd” can make a contribution to the success of crowdfunding and crowdsourcing projects. In our opinion, it is being on the ethical side of crowdsourcing what ensures the success of the crowdsourcing projects. This approach is crucial to the understanding of how mobile crowdfunding app producers should ensure privacy and responsibility of each member of the “crowd” involved in any crowdfunding campaign.