A blogger and union activist has filed a lawsuit against AOL and the Huffington Post for not paying freelance bloggers.
The suit claims the company unfairly pocketed more than $100 million from its unpaid bloggers when AOL Inc. bought the influential news website in February, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday.
The suit, filed in a Manhattan federal court, comes two months after Arianna Huffington, co-founder of the website, sold it to AOL for $315 million.
Of that price, at least $105 million was the estimated value of the website's unpaid writings, which should now be given to the bloggers, the lawsuit says.
With the growth of the Internet and online publishing, it's natural for skirmishes like this to occur while we redefine rights and rates. They don't stand a chance, but they wouldn't even if they were completely in the right.
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