A Charlie Hebdo Coda: Sides Battle Over Donated Money

I haven't seen a ton on this yet, but it's an interesting story. Apparently, over thirty million Euros have been donated to the magazine Charlie Hebdo some two months and change after a significant number of staffers were murdered in an internationally significant event. What to do with that money has led some of the columnists and workers to begin work to make the magazine an entity in which everyone participates in ownership. The pushback from the current owners isn't straight-up "well, we'd like to keep this money" pushback, but more along the lines of "let's wait, let's make sure the magazine comes out, let's pay all the taxes first; this isn't going anywhere."

You could argue both sides pretty easily, I think, and I have no personal opinion here. I would get it, if I were a staffer, wanting to share in profits across the board given that my life was equally at stake. I can also see why these arguments might work more effectively at a later time, perhaps after the deceased co-owner's interests are settled separately. I'm interested to see how this one develops.
 
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