Mail Online Sues Gawker Over Plagiarism Claims

New York Post: The Daily Mail Online has sued Gawker, claiming the embattled New York gossip blog libeled it in a scathing March 4 essay. The essay, by James King, a former Mail Online freelancer, claimed the U.K.-based operation regularly stole articles from other news sources without proper attribution. King claimed in the first-person piece entitled “My Year Ripping Off the Web With the Daily Mail Online”that his former employer routinely “plagiarized” articles, engaged in “dishonest practices” and took a “buccaneering approach to accuracy and intellectual property.”