Judges will consider the issue of ownership of a Twitter feed
The blogger Noah Kravitz , who had to work to test new products for the company PhoneDog between 2006 and 2010, is now continued by his former employer . According to the text of the complaint, filed in July in federal court in California, when Mr. Kravitz has “suddenly resigned” in October 2010, his employer asked him to give up on his own Twitter , entitled PhoneDog @ Noah , who was followed by 17 000 users.
Mr. Kravitz refused to do so, merely changing the title of the thread, just now @ noahkravitz . And since then he has been hired by a competitor, TechnoBuffalo, and uses its over Twitter “to denigrate PhoneDog ” .
HISTORY OF AWARENESS
PhoneDog is seeking 340,000 dollars in damages, based on a value of $ 2.50 per user according to his wire, or 42 500 dollars a month for eight months.
Quoted by the New York Times , Mr. Kravitz testified that he had left PhoneDog on good terms, and with the consent of the company that he “tweets on behalf of [company] from time to time” . Yet he found the target of legal proceedings eight months later, he interpreted as a move of retaliation after he claimed 15% of gross advertising revenue PhoneDog. This does not prevent Mr. Kravitz laugh about all this about her Twitter .
For its part, PhoneDog defended himself in a statement released by the newspaper: “The costs and resources invested by PhoneDog Media to make advance its reputation and its number of subscribers in social media are important, PhoneDog Media considers them his property (…) We intend to act decisively to protect our customer lists and confidential information, as well as our intellectual property and brands. ”
A lawyer intellectual property issues, Henry Cittone , has argued that the case would “set a precedent in the online world in terms of ownership of accounts on social media” . “Many of our customers s’ concern matters of membership accounts on social media ” , said Cittone, also cited by the New York Times.
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