Facebook CEO Haunted By New Ownership Claims
August 20th, 2010 - 3:31 am ICT by GDBy Ranjan Bhaduri
Aug 19, (THAINDIAN NEWS) Facebook the popular social networking site is back in news again but not only for a new feature or any security flaw. The young CEO of the company Mark Zuckerberg is in trouble after facing the claim of a man named Paul Ceglia. The latter apparently paid a check to the Facebook CEO and he has resorted to legal action to grab a share of the profits that Facebook is earning. The check signed by the man way back in 2003 shows that he has paid an amount of $3000 to Mark Zuckerberg. There was a contract between the duo at that time as the copy of the check suggests.
As one can expect Facebook is denying the claim vehemently and the lawyer of Mark Zuckerberg has said that the so called contract between Mark Zuckerberg and Paul Ceglia is nothing short of fraudulent. Paul Ceglia said in his court complaint that when Mark Zuckerberg was a student in Harvard University, he had signed the “work for hire” contract with him. In response to the claim the attorney of the Facebook CEO has said that he did certain amount of work for Paul Ceglia but that is not related to Facebook in any way.
Paul Ceglia in his complaint has claimed that he deserves 84% stake in the widely popular social networking application. Mark Zuckerberg’s lawyers have also said that Facebook was unregistered before 2004 and acquired a domain name in 2005. Hence the claim of Paul Ceglia of having a share in Facebook is not valid. Earlier three students also claimed the ownership of Facebook but their claim was refuted too.
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