Mediabistro reports that Jonathan Tasini has filed a class action lawsuit against The Huffington Post on behalf of their bloggers. GOOD. I was hoping this would happen. We're rooting for you Jonathan and all you bloggers who were used and paid nothing while Huffpo sold the site and made what? 300 Million? And Huffpo couldn't bother to pay the people who created the content for the site, without which a sale would have never existed?
Bloggers Against Blogger Lawsuit Against HuffPo http://ow.ly/4zImS
Additional reading: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/02/13/readers-bloggers-sound-off-on-huff-post-sale/
Image by Pearson Scott Foresman [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
3 comments:
Yes, I think under that circumstance the bloggers should definitely be paid for their work. As a writer I can identify with writing for free for publications that aren’t making any money yet in order to gain experience and exposure. But once a large compnay like AOL aquires the publication it’s like come on…you can pay them now. I think it is unfair that the owner reaps all of the benefits of the bloggers work. It’s selfish.
That's the thing, right? It may not be illegal but it's deeply selfish.
Ah, an the rub is that these are the same people who slam capitalism.
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