Saturday, November 12, 2011

Company Sues Ex-Employee Because He Kept His Personal Twitter Account & Followers

Well, well, well. Look at this. A year ago, we wrote a message asking if the "property" of a Twitter account when someone was an employee of a company and had accumulated a great "personal" Twitter follows in this role ... but then left the company. The example used the CNN Rick Sanchez. It never reached a legal conflict, but in reality was only a matter of time. Venkat Balasubramanian alerts us to a case in which the defendant company PhoneDog former employee because he has kept his Twitter account. A couple of important points from the start. It was not "the" PhoneDog Twitter account. The company had its own Twitter account specific. The employee in question, Noah Kravitz, just call your own "@ PhoneDog_Noah" has become a fairly standard classification scheme for employees of certain companies - as the company name and your own name in the handle. Moreover, once left PhoneDog Kravitz, changed the account @ noahkravitz. PhoneDog still continued, stating (1) misappropriation of trade secrets, (2) interference with economic advantage, and conversion (3) .

The court ruled on the motion Kravitz to say goodbye to reject "interference with economic advantage," say, but left standing the other claims, for now. I can not imagine how it is trade secret or conversion of the request is at all. What is the secret here? Hell, what is "secret" at all? The Twitter account is public. The list of supporters is public. The only thing that is not public is the password, and there is a discussion about whether the word was "adequate protection" as a trade secret. Although it was not, however, is that really a "trade secret?" It's a password! But the court thought that was enough:

PhoneDog
sufficiently described the issue of trade secret with sufficient detail and argued that, despite his request that Mr. Kravitz authorize the use of the password and the account refused to do so. At this stage, these allegations are sufficient to make a claim. In addition, to the extent that Mr. Kravitz asked if the account password and the disciples are trade secrets and whether the conduct of Mr. Kravitz is the diversion requires an examination of evidence beyond the scope of document.


It sounds crazy. If you want him to Tweet the company, give the name of the enterprise. If you want him to Tweet like him to do so. Demand for the just seems ridiculous and petty
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