Recently the high profile leftwing news site Huffington Post was sold to AOL for $315m with the majority of the money going to the two owners of the site.
Now, most of the content was created by bloggers and added for free. They claim that without their content the site would never have been as popular as it was and so would not have been sold on to AOL making the two owners a lot of money in the process.
Because of this, they want a share of the proceeds of the sale for the time and effort, albeit freely and unpaid, they put into the site.
So, do you think they have a case or do the owners deserve the payoff they got for putting the whole framework together?