Comments on: Another Messy Employee-Employer Dispute Over Facebook Page Ownership https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2014/11/another-messy-employee-employer-dispute-over-facebook-page-ownership.htm Fri, 07 Nov 2014 04:53:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Eric Goldman https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2014/11/another-messy-employee-employer-dispute-over-facebook-page-ownership.htm#comment-1045 Fri, 07 Nov 2014 04:53:00 +0000 http://blog.ericgoldman.org/?p=13300#comment-1045 In reply to John Gregory.

Good points, John. I think you reinforce the fallacy that we can easily distinguish between personal and corporate social media accounts. The facts don’t always present themselves in tidy packages. Eric.

]]> By: John Gregory https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2014/11/another-messy-employee-employer-dispute-over-facebook-page-ownership.htm#comment-1043 Fri, 07 Nov 2014 03:21:00 +0000 http://blog.ericgoldman.org/?p=13300#comment-1043 Isn’t it relevant whose page it was, and where it should have been from the start? It sounds from the description as if she created the page for the Commission on the Commission’s instructions – in which case she should have moved it over to the Commission or created it somewhere separate in the first place.

I would have no difficulty with her postings if they had been on her own personal page, even if she were still an employee of the Commission, but when she purports or at least reasonably appears, through her own actions in creating the page she did, to be speaking for the Commission, then my sympathy is definitely reduced.

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