Editor’s Note: This is the fourth part of a 4-part series on social media law: protecting the ownership of your social media accounts (for both employers and employees). Over the course of this week, we’ve looked at a 2011 case, PhoneDog vs. Kravitz, where a company sued a former employee for that employee’s Twitter account, used to […]
How to Create Policies to Legally Protect Your Brand’s Social Media Accounts
Editor’s Note: This is the third part of a 4-part series on social media law: protecting the ownership of your social media accounts (for both employers and employees). This week we’ve been exploring a 2011 case of an employer and former employee battling it out legally, over a Twitter account valued at $340,000. It’s a case […]
Do Social Media Accounts Legally Belong to the Employer or Employee?
Editor’s Note: This is the second part of a 4-part series on social media law: protecting the ownership of your social media accounts (for both employers and employees). Yesterday we looked at a 2011 court case that involved an employer and employee battling over a Twitter account valued at $340,000; and we answered the question of […]
Can You Sue Former Employees for Social Media Accounts?
Editor’s Note: This is the first of a 4-part series on social media law: protecting the ownership of your social media accounts (for both employers and employees). I recently came across a very interesting lawsuit between a company and their former employee over ownership of a Twitter account. It’s the case of PhoneDog vs. Kravitz […]
The Makings of a Great Crisis Response: Fontaine Santé
Back in December a Montreal-based company, Fontaine Santé, detected the possibility of Listeria Monocytogenes in their pre-packaged salads. Fontaine Santé Foods Inc. is a widely distributed North American food company that prides itself on quality ingredients, preservative-free, ready-to-eat produce. At the time of this discovery, the potentially contaminated salads had already been distributed and purchased […]
