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Pinterest hires Google’s deputy general counsel Michael Yang

Nicholas Carlson of Business Insider:

Today is Yang’s last day as deputy general counsel at Google. Soon, he’ll be Pinterest’s head of legal, a PR rep for the company confirms.

What will Michael Yang be doing?

But Pinterest faces a serious legal challenge in its future: a huge portion of the content hosted on the site is copyrighted content, posted without the consent or even knowlege of the copyright owners.

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