NY District Judge Dismisses Blogger Suit Against Huffington Post

Posted by timothy on Saturday March 31, 2012 @11:16AM from the you'll-write-this-and-like-it dept.

The Chicago Tribute reports on a ruling announced Friday that the Huffington Post violated no law in profiting enormously from the unpaid contributions of bloggers who wrote much of the content that has spurred the site's success. Says the article: "John E. Koeltel, a district court judge in New York, dismissed a class action sought brought against the Huffington Post by unpaid bloggers seeking $105 million from AOL and Arianna Huffington's media empire. The bloggers argued that though they initially agreed to do the work for free, the Huffington Post was 'unjustly enriched as a result of this practice,' violating New York state law. Koeltel disagreed. 'There is no question that the plaintiffs submitted their materials to The Huffington Post with no expectation of monetary compensation and that they got what they paid for -- exposure in The Huffington Post,' Koeltel wrote."

2 of 94 comments (clear)

Min score:

Reason:

Sort:

Re:Arianna by johnny+cashed · 2012-03-31 11:50 · Score: 1, Funny

Not a bitch, whore. Let's not disparage female dogs here.
Re:Awesome, simply Awesome by Anonymous Coward · 2012-03-31 13:54 · Score: 2, Funny

...the school loan for my $250,000 MFA in post modern lesbian Marxist fiction...
Not sure where you're coming from there, sport. I'm fairly certain that an MFA in post-modern lesbian Marxist fiction tops out at $200,000.