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The Huffington Post Lawsuit: Did Arianna Steal the Whole Idea for her Website?

The February issue of Vanity Fair runs a behind-the-scenes of this entangled mess.

from www.divorcesaloon.com – Huffington Post owner Ariana Huffington is in a scathing Vanity Fair story that leaves the media mogul on the defensive. It seems two – “nobodies” – Peter Daou and James Boyce, are suing Ariana Huffington and her partners for “stealing their ideas without compensating and acknowledging” their contributions to the fundamental formation of Huffington Post and the Huffpost news blog.

The men claim to have been present in Arianna’s mansion in 2004 where she and they and others participated in a group meeting at which the idea for Huffington Post (but not HuffPost Divorce which came late 2010) was hashed out.

The site was to be a “Democratic” Counter to the Drudge Report. Daou and Boyce claim in a lawsuit filed by their Manhattan attorney Partha Chattoraj (Harvard, Yale Law), that they provided “ideas” for to Arianna and that she took their ideas and ran with them and failed to give them any credit or acknowledge where she got her ideas from, for Huffington Post.

So the men (“nobodies” depending on who you talk to) are suing for “misappropriation” and “unjust enrichment” and they are seeking unspecified financial damages.

…Daou and Boyce’s lawsuit was almost bizarre in it’s timing and content. It is easy to dismiss them as delusional, but I would like to hear more of the evidence, knowing how our ideas were so avariciously stolen as well. Well, then again, is this “idea stealing?” Or is it “fair competition?” Guess some would say it’s “fair competition.

At first, I tried to see it as fair competition, but nah. This is idea-stealing. In my opinion, Huffpost has blatantly tried to take over our concept for our website [Divorce Saloon] and make it theirs. And they are getting away with it. No one would believe that something like Huffington Post would even look at a site like Divorce Saloon , eh? But they are. Trust me, they are.

A shrewd (or maybe not so shrewd person) can see the resemblance and do the math and see who is copying whom. Huffpost Divorce has literally hijacked the concept of a lesser known blog and made it as if it is their original idea. And if you bring it up, they will swear up and down that they have never even heard of this blog. And that we are “mental.” So all my hard work over the years (I started this divorce blog in 2006 but went full time in 2008) are being eclipsed by the sheer force that is Huffington Post.

Hat tip to Daou and Boyce for being brave enough to bring this lawsuit. Even if they lose, I feel lucky they came out when they did. Because I have been quietly observing this situation, but I knew I had no voice or platform to say or do anything about it. Still, the fact that they had the guts to bring the suit is commendable. There is definitely something poetic about this lawsuit and the timing of it, and the substance of it. Says Daou in his Vanity Fair interview:

We’re basically saying, something happened back then and it was wrong. We came [up] with the idea….At a fundamental level, it is wrong to take someone’s ideas, take someone’s efforts, takes someone’s work,takes someone’s vision, and then completely claim it as your own.”

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