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Originally Posted by pdurrant
There are laws about unfair competition, but they do not apply in this case. Any company or person is free to make use of volunteer labour.
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Maybe they can and maybe they can't. It wouldn't be a case of unfair competition, but it gets very gray around minimum wage laws. A for-profit company very rarely can accept direct unpaid volunteer labor without falling afoul of the minimum wage requirements. A non-profit almost always can. As long as there is no direct financial ties between the for-profit and the non-profit, the for-profit may use the output of the non-profit. You would need to talk to a lawyer that specializes in this for details.
Greg