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Columbia Pictures Beats Social Network Lawsuit From Former Zuckerberg Classmate

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Columbia Pictures Beats Social Network lawsuit

Well, that was a waste of time.

Aaron Greenspan, one of Mark Zuckerberg's Harvard classmates, filed a lawsuit against Columbia Pictures for his name being omitted from The Social Network.

He claimed to be robbed of glory for his role in the creation of Facebook because there was no mention of him in the movie or the book that inspired it, The Accidental Billionaires. The jaded Harvard grad also tried to convince the presiding judge that both the book and movie were copyright infringements of his own autobiography.

The judge, however, didn't see any unlawful similarities and didn't buy his argument of "defamation by omission."

Greenspan has argued in the past that he was essential to the creation of Facebook because he originally created his own social networking site called "the Face Book."

Regardless of how accurate his claims are, he still got a chunk of Zuckerberg's success. In 2009, Greenspan settled out of court with the billionaire when he fought the trademark of the site's famous name.

This most recent lawsuit sounds like an unsuccessful attempt to milk his connection to Facebook for everything it was worth.

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One comment to “Columbia Pictures Beats Social Network Lawsuit From Former Zuckerberg Classmate”

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    All of this just promotes what money sucking spongers so many Harvard graduates are, all they care about is money and image, well Aaron, your image is one of riding off someone elses coats-tails. Make your own money and prove your salt, or are you just one of the many who just mucked around and qualified by riding on Daddy's name? So tired of these Harvard graduates, I've only met one I've ever liked, the rest live up to its terrible reputation.