Summary
Crowd funding began as a way to support the arts on the Internet. Now it's expanded to entrepreneurs, and the rules aren't quite as clear.
Description
On Kickstarter, the largest crowd-funding site, a handful of entrepreneurs have raised millions of dollars more than they'd expected, by selling the concept of products they have yet to make. But financial backers have no clear way of getting a refund if the young businesses fail to deliver.
SOURCE LINK to the full article:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2012/09/03/160505449/when-a-kickstarter-campaign-fails-does-anyone-get-their-money-back?ft=3&f=2,3,5,7,10,13,35,39,46