A trial will decide the issue of ownership of a Twitter feed

Dec. 31, 2011 - PRLog -- The first lawsuit in the United States could settle the question of who owns a Twitter feed written by an employee of a company.The blogger Noah Kravitz, who was to work to test new products for the company PhoneDog between 2006 and 2010, is now pursued 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 his Twitter account, titled @ PhoneDog_Noah, which was followed by 17,000 Internet users.

Mr. Kravitz refused to do so, simply change the title of the thread, just now @ noahkravitz. And since then he has been hired by a competitor, TechnoBuffalo, and uses its Twitter feed "to denigrate PhoneDog."
PhoneDog is seeking $ 340,000 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 Thursday by the New York Times, Mr. Kravitz testified that he had left PhoneDog on good terms, and with the consent of the company for it "'tweets' in the name (of society) from time to time ".

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