Austin-based cleaning company Austin Gutter King Corporation, Inc. made headline news in Texas this week by filing a lawsuit against the poster of a negative review of its business on Google Places, the search engine’s business listing and review website.
Twitter Follower Case Settled
Social media has led to some new forms of intellectual property, including the “Twitter follower” (a registered user of microblogging site Twitter that is interested in the postings of another user and that other user permits him/her to receive those
Twitter Amends DMCA Policy Due to Copyright Complaints
In an “effort to be as transparent as possible regarding the removal or restriction of access to user posted content,” social media company Twitter recently announced changes to the site’s Copyright and Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) policy.
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Will Facebook’s New Policy Affect Your Company Page?
Should companies with social media pages be concerned with dissemination of their information to other entities, such as current or potential competitors?
Some privacy groups think so, and warn that a user of popular social media site Facebook may well
Facebook Information: Privacy v. Discovery
When can a party to a lawsuit get access to another party’s Facebook-posted materials for discovery purposes without violating privacy rights?
On November 14, 2012, New York’s Appellate Division ruled on that question in an auto accident/personal injury matter
The Legal Gray Area of Retweeted Content
NLRB Still Scrutinizing Social Media Policies
On November 15, 2012, the National Labor Relations Board again rejected an employer’s social media policy because it could be construed to chill employees’ rights to join together for mutual aid and protection.
Dish Network’s employee handbook banned employees from
OpenID
OpenID is an third-party identification protocol that allows users to log on to multiple websites with only one username and password. Users register with one OpenID website, called an Identity Provider. The user can then log on to any website