1CYBER LAW
Question 1
Fact
In this question the case of Facebook, Inc. v. Connectu LLC, NO. C 07-01389 (RS)
(N.D. Cal. Jun. 13, 2007), is to be reviewed. In this case ConnectU filed a lawsuit against
Facebook and the executives of the Facebook for the commission of infringement of copyright,
implied contract’s breach, trade secret’s misappropriation, breach of the fiduciary duty, unfair
practices of business, unjust enrichment, intentional interference with the advantage of
prospective business, breach of duty of fair dealing and good faith, breach of confidence and
fraud.
There are several parties in this case. ConnectU was the plaintiff of this case and the
defendants were Facebook, Inc., Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin,
Christopher Hughes and Thefacebook LLC.
A lawsuit was filed by the ConnectU against the Facebook which alleged that an oral
contract was breached by the creator of the Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg for using the idea and
source code of the ConnectU team and creating TheFacebook.com using that idea and source
code. The plaintiff was motivated to take legal action as they believed that Mark Zuckerberg
copied their idea and used the same to form up a competing networking site name Facebook
(Gonçalves, 2018).
The following are some of the major facts of the case: Mark Zuckerberg was approached
on November 2003 by Tyler Winklevoss, Cameron Winklevoss and DivyaNarendra to join the
HarvardConnection team. On 25th November, 2003 a meeting was held between the

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