The dispute over who owns the Facebook IP turns out to be a three-way affair, perhaps like some of the hook-ups on the site itself. In 2004, the founders of of a site called ConnectU sued Facebook, alleging copyright infringement and theft of trade secrets. The ConnectU founders - Harvard students at the time - claim that they conceived the idea of a collegiate social networking site, and asked another student, Mark Zuckerberg, to write the source code.
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The dispute over who owns the Facebook IP turns out to be a three-way affair, perhaps like some of the hook-ups on the site itself. In 2004, the founders of of a site called ConnectU sued Facebook, alleging copyright infringement and theft of trade secrets. The ConnectU founders - Harvard students at the time - claim that they conceived the idea of a collegiate social networking site, and asked another student, Mark Zuckerberg, to write the source code.