
Facebook officials said today that the company is “not sure” that the company's founder, Mark Zuckerberg, signed an agreement with New Yorker Paul Ceglia in 2003. Let me remind you that the bomb effect was made by the message that the unknown Paul Ceglie claimed 84%
of Facebook assets .
It is worth recalling that Ceglie did not just make a statement, he presented a contract, allegedly signed by Zuckerberg, where the current billionaire and then university student Mark Zuckerberg undertakes to make The Facebook site for $ 1,000 for Chelya. The contract provided for a penalty - 1% of the cost of the site for each day of downtime. Thus, in February 2004, Ceglie seems to have become the owner of 84% of Facebook’s assets (according to Chelia).
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Now the cost of Facebook Corp. is 24.6 billion dollars, according to specialists of the company SharesPost.com.
First, a Facebook spokesman said the following: “The suit is very frivolous and we will resolutely fight in court.” Now followed by a new statement, which states that "At the moment we are not sure that he signed this scrap of paper." So said the company's lawyer Lisa Simpson
where is Homer, Lisa? . Interestingly, the trial, despite the seeming unreality of what is happening, continues in all seriousness. Facebook assets were even frozen (though, at the request of the company's lawyers, the assets were unfrozen). Now Lisa Simpson declares that the company has “serious questions” to the authenticity of the document.
At the same time, Simpson has already told the court that Zuckerberg really worked for Chelyu as a programmer. In addition, it was stated that Ceglie presented the contract too late, because in the state of New York the statute of limitations for the cases in question is 6 years. And Chelja dates his legal action on February 4, 2004, when, under the terms of this strange contract, he had to withdraw 84% of the site’s assets.
True, now there are new interesting circumstances of the case. Ceglia initially claimed that Zuckerberg signed an agreement on the creation of the site “The Facebook”, and now says that at first it was about making the StreetFax site with millions of street photos, to the base of which would be paid access. But along with this site Zuckerberg was supposed to create the notorious “graduation album” for Harvard students.
Facebook representatives during the trial have more than once called the process “ridiculous.” Nevertheless, the trial is still underway, and apparently, the matter is not the easiest.
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