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A reminder to avoid prying into private group Facebook pages!

Fredrikson & Byron PA
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USA
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April 12 2013

We haven't seen a lot of Facebook firing cases coming out of the National Labor Relations Board ("NLRB") recently, but on April 3, 2013, the NLRB's

Number of seniors using social media has doubled in only two years

Fredrikson & Byron PA
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USA
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July 30 2012

Recently, the Pew Internet and American Life Project released an updated survey on internet and social media usage by Americans age 65 and older

NLRB finds Costco’s policy prohibiting defamation unlawful

Fredrikson & Byron PA
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USA
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September 26 2012

Just when we thought the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) had been noticeably quiet on the social media front, it came out with a ruling that has brought our attention back to the issue of “troublesome” employee policy language

The debate over social media passwords continues: Maryland legislature passes ban on employers asking for social media passwords

Fredrikson & Byron PA
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USA
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April 17 2012

Since my last post describing the brewing storm over the practice of employers asking applicants for social media passwords, Maryland has become the first state in the U.S. to pass a bill outlawing the practice

And as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown in 1971

Fredrikson & Byron PA
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USA
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January 31 2012

HarperCollins Publishers has filed suit for copyright infringement against Open Road Integrated Media for reproducing and distributing an e-book version of the 1973 Newberry Medal winning novel entitled Julie and the Wolves by Jean Craighead George

Can the court force you to turn over your Facebook account? The short answer: yes.

Fredrikson & Byron PA
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USA
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August 21 2012

If you run a business there may be a time when, in the course of a lawsuit, you might want, and need, access to an employee’s or plaintiff’s Facebook, Twitter, or other social media account

Was the NLRB’s decision about employee use of social media on company time much to do about nothing? maybe

Fredrikson & Byron PA
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USA
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October 26 2012

There has been much buzz recently about the NLRB striking down a social media policy that, among other things, prohibited employees from participating in social media on company time

Internet defamation claims on the rise as online reviews impact the bottom line

Fredrikson & Byron PA
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USA
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December 14 2012

We have all read, relied upon or at least considered those online reviews that are attached to internet products and services - right?

Who owns your company’s social media profiles, contacts and content?

Fredrikson & Byron PA
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USA
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June 21 2011

Who owns social media is a nebulous and often confounding question

NLRB charge dismissed employee’s LinkedIn “joke” falls flat

Fredrikson & Byron PA
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USA
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November 11 2011

The National Labor Relations Board recently dismissed a charge brought by an employee who was fired for a post on LinkedIn

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