Last weekend I was invited by Glenn Gabe, SEO guru and author of The Internet Marketing Driver to add a lawyer’s perspective of Twitter. The question was who “owns” a twitter account an employee or the employer. Glenn proposed five different scenarios of employees and I provided my legal analysis as to who owns the account. The full content of the article is on Search Engine Journal here.
Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, blogs, etc. have or on the verge of remaking many aspects of employer/employee relations and pose so interesting challenges to businesses. I will take a look in future posts on some additional legal ramifications of Twitter, blogs and other social media forums.