Court: Facebook Likes Are Not Property
Facebook likes can be viewed any number of ways, but according to a federal court judge in Florida, they cannot be considered property. That declaration was part of the ruling in a lawsuit filed against BET by insurance agent Stacey Mattocks over a fan page for The Game, a series on the cable network.
Facebook likes can be viewed any number of ways, but according to a federal court judge in Florida, they cannot be considered property. That declaration was part of the ruling in a lawsuit filed against BET by insurance agent Stacey Mattocks over a fan page for The Game, a series on the cable network.
As reported by The Hollywood Reporter’s Hollywood, Esq. blog in July 2013, Mattocks created a fan page for The Game in 2008, when the series was running on another television network, The CW, and BET revived the series in January 2011, at which point Mattocks’ fan page had 750,000 likes and was growing at some 100,000 likes per week.
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