Judge } Huffington Post Don’t Have to Pay Bloggers For "Doing" (copy-paste) What Bloggers Do

 We that are in the business of blogging know that Huffington Post does what we all do. We scan the net and either quote or copy what news is coming in, because news do not have an owner. 


There are services that think the opposite, like Associate Press, Reuters and others which charge for putting news on the net.  Well like my mom used to say: "Every crazy with his craziness, just let them be”.  
Now you have some bloggers that thought that their words posted on the net are covered by the same law that covers intellectual materials. 
Well sorry to tell you all that news and history to current events is not intellectual.  It is just the past, present or future.  Just reported the way it happened. adamfoxie*

"A federal judge in New York says that the Huffington Post and its parent company, AOL, don’t have to pay bloggers who provide content for the website.

U.S. District Judge John Koeltl dismissed a lawsuit that bloggers filed last year, saying they were unjustly denied compensation for their work.

The bloggers were seeking class-action status for the lawsuit. The lawsuit was prompted by AOL Inc.’s $315 million purchase of the Huffington Post last year. The bloggers claimed that the website unjustly profited from their work, promising only exposure.

In dismissing the suit, the judge says the bloggers knew from the start that they wouldn’t be paid and could have taken their work elsewhere”. NYPost

 Latest Update:
Bloggers hoping to put themselves on a more robust financial footing and close the gap between them and fully paid journalists are vowing to fight on after a New York court dismissed their multi-million-dollar lawsuit against the Huffington Post.