Huffington Post co-founders Arianna Huffington and Kenneth Lerer have settled a lawsuit that claimed they stole the idea behind the site from two Democratic consultants. The lawsuit came in New York Superior Court from Peter Daou and James Boyce, who alleged that in 2004, they gave the HuffPo founders a memorandum that proposed a website and blog collective to serve as a counterpoint to prominent conservative sites like Drudge Report. The lawsuit further claimed that Huffington had agreed to participate in the project, present it to potential investors, and through a series of meetings had formed a joint venture
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- 5/15/2014
- by Eriq Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A New York judge refused for a second time Arianna Huffington and Ken Lerer's request to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that the media moguls stole the idea for the Huffington Post, according to court documents obtained by TheWrap. The new ruling on Thursday also includes claims of fraud and unjust enrichment, new allegations in a case that has been ongoing since October 2011, when two Democratic political operatives, Peter Daou and James Boyce, sued Huffington and Lerer for allegedly stealing an idea they brought to the pair in 2004. The news...
- 2/15/2013
- by Alexander C. Kaufman
- The Wrap
Did Arianna Huffington and Ken Lerer steal the idea for the Huffington Post? Though Huffington has deemed the allegation "ridiculous," a judge thinks that a lawsuit making that claim is serious enough to go to trial, per a ruling in a New York court Wednesday. Peter Daou and James Boyce, two former political advisers, filed suit against the HuffPost co-founders last November claiming that they took their idea for a liberal-leaning news site. Since then, Huffington and Lerer have tried to have the case thrown out, but to no avail. The judge ruled...
- 10/26/2011
- by Lucas Shaw
- The Wrap
By Robyn Twomey (Huffington); by Julian Dufort (Boyce and Daou).In the winter of their discontent (November 2010), James Boyce and Peter Daou, two Democratic consultants for the Huffington Post, filed a lawsuit claiming to have created the blueprint for HuffPo in 2004. According to Boyce and Daou, their proposal for “1460,” a liberal answer to the Drudge Report, became the basis for Arianna Huffington’s eponymous Internet portal, which was sold to AOL for $315 million in February. Responding to Boyce and Daou’s claims, Huffington wrote, “Your suggestion, after nearly 6 years, that you understood all along that we were in a ‘partnership’ to create and operate the Huffington Post is stunning. And ridiculous.” Yesterday, a Manhattan judge refused a motion by Huffington’s lawyers to dismiss the suit, moving the case into a discovery and fact-finding phase. In the February 2011 issue of Vanity Fair, contributing editor William D. Cohan dissected Boyce and Daou’s claims.
- 5/25/2011
- Vanity Fair
Mipcom took place over a month ago, but its effects can still be felt – particularly by those who had never been to an international market. James Boyce, on behalf of Dog Money World, shares his first experience with Encore.
It was not just any other Sunday afternoon in Sydney. Our hearts beating with excitement at the prospect, ‘this time next week, we could be touching down in France for Mipcom’. Our decision was made, after months of working on our cross-media concept Crime Plays and a great response from a pitching panel, it seemed that this project would be the one that would take us to our first international market.
From the get-go we felt we were onto something good with Crime Plays, an immersive cross-platform experience that puts a crime world in the palm of your hands. Most aptly described it’s The Amazing Race meets Mafia Wars.
In the months preceding Mipcom,...
It was not just any other Sunday afternoon in Sydney. Our hearts beating with excitement at the prospect, ‘this time next week, we could be touching down in France for Mipcom’. Our decision was made, after months of working on our cross-media concept Crime Plays and a great response from a pitching panel, it seemed that this project would be the one that would take us to our first international market.
From the get-go we felt we were onto something good with Crime Plays, an immersive cross-platform experience that puts a crime world in the palm of your hands. Most aptly described it’s The Amazing Race meets Mafia Wars.
In the months preceding Mipcom,...
- 11/17/2010
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
A pair of Democratic strategists filed a lawsuit on Monday claiming that Huffington Post founders Arianna Huffington and Ken Lerer stole their idea for the site. In the suit filed in New York Supreme Court late Monday, Peter Daou and James Boyce -- who served as consultants for John Kerry and Hillary Clinton’s failed 2004 and 2008 presidential campaigns, respectively -- allege Huffington and Lerer “entered into a joint venture” with them to develop the liberal site they, in fact, had "conceived.” According to the suit, Daou and Boyce -- who have...
- 11/16/2010
- by Dylan Stableford
- The Wrap
One day you're pitching your multiplatform concept in class as a hypothetical situation. The next week, you're zoomed halfway across the globe to pitch the very same concept to an international market at one of the biggest entertainment content events in the world. Although this situation may seem unlikely, three Metro Screen students - Claire Evans, Anna Bay and James Boyce - who have just returned home from Mipcom in Cannes would say otherwise. "The week before the conference, we had no idea we were going," Evans says. "We pitched it on a Sunday afternoon, got the feedback that we should take it overseas and jumped on a computer and realised that Mipcom was in a few days' time.
- 10/25/2010
- FilmInk.com.au
Metro Screen Multi-Platform Screen Producer Scholarship students Claire Evans, Anna Bay and James Boyce will meet with Us studio Lionsgate at Mipcom.
“The best outcome from their visit to Cannes would be funding of the concept to build a prototype, and they’ll be looking for film and television properties to align with,” said the school’s learning and development manager Bethany Bruce.
According to Metro Screen, Evans, Bay and Boyce have scheduled interviews with a Danish distributor and a number of international broadcasters. They have “paid for everything out of their pockets”, but the school is “working with a few agencies, trying to get a grant for them”.
Their project is entitled Crime Plays and it was developed in class. It’s “an immersive, pervasive game wrapped in a crime story-world. It’s The Amazing Race meets Mafia Wars“. The team are partnering with transmedia production company The Project Factory,...
“The best outcome from their visit to Cannes would be funding of the concept to build a prototype, and they’ll be looking for film and television properties to align with,” said the school’s learning and development manager Bethany Bruce.
According to Metro Screen, Evans, Bay and Boyce have scheduled interviews with a Danish distributor and a number of international broadcasters. They have “paid for everything out of their pockets”, but the school is “working with a few agencies, trying to get a grant for them”.
Their project is entitled Crime Plays and it was developed in class. It’s “an immersive, pervasive game wrapped in a crime story-world. It’s The Amazing Race meets Mafia Wars“. The team are partnering with transmedia production company The Project Factory,...
- 9/30/2010
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
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