∞ Lawsuit asks for 84 percent ownership in Facebook

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Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook are being sued by one of the original website designers for the business.

Filed in the Supreme Court in New York’s Allegany County, Paul Ceglia says that his contract, signed in 2003 to design thefacebook.com, gave him a substantial piece of the company.

According to the lawsuit posted on Mashable.com, Ceglia was to receive $1,000 and a 50 percent ownership in the company for his work. Ceglia further claims that he was supposed to get an additional 1 percent stake for each day until the site was completed.

In total, Ceglia claims he owns 84 percent of Facebook. Facebook is asking the court to kick the case.


  • http://tewha.net Steven Fisher

    INAL. But this makes me giggle anyway.

  • http://www.kevinraffay.com Kevin Raffay

    There might be some merit to this claim. There are tons of Craigslist’s posts offering equity in exchange for development on websites. Most are delusional ideas. But what if you do the work, move on, and then years later, the company finally has some equity?

    IMHO, Facebook will have to pay big bucks to make this go away.

  • Eric

    Shoot, a former prosecuting attorney owes me over $6,000 for software development for his company that designed restitution mangement software. His wife died of cancer, and the compan failed after his manager was jailed for tax evasion. The documentation writer used to work for Ross Perot.

    Should I expect payment some day? :-P

  • newbedave

    you can not claim ownership of face book zuckerberg stole the idea then the info and the platform LOL for extra merit take a lie detector test tip of the day

  • Ian

    This has no merit. The contract was for TheFacebook LLC, a Florida LLC. When Facebook received it’s infusion of $500,000 from Peter Thiel, the Florida LLC ceased to exist. Therefore, this guy owns 84% of a defunct LLC in Florida.