Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Power.com countersues Facebook over user data

Power.com, an aggregator of social networking sites Sued facebook, on Friday, July 10th, in a California court to try to resolve who owns the data on social networking sites, the user or the sites.

Power says users do and plans to take the stand that users have "complete and total ownership and controlof their content, as well as to protect their content from other users and corporate entities.

The countersuit accuses Facebook of unfair competition, restraint of trade and creating a monopoly. Facebook sued Power,com for alleged copyright and trademark infringement,unlawful competition and fraud.

It looks like both parties believe strongly in their stand and will fight to the bitter end.

To read more see http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/0710/AR20090710026331.ht...

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