Court to Decide If Employer or Employee Owns LinkedIn Account
If you use a LinkedIn account to promote your business, can the business claim the account belongs to it? That's one of the issues at stake in a legal dispute between Linda Eagle and her former employer, Edcomm. A trial is set for October 16. But even before the court decides what to do about Eagle's account, there are rules, laws and best practices that can help users avoid more dust-ups like this one.
If you use a LinkedIn account to promote your business, can the business claim the account belongs to it? That’s one of the issues at stake in a legal dispute between Linda Eagle and her former employer, Edcomm.
Eagle was a founder of the company Edcomm, which provides education for people in the banking industry. As president of the company, Eagle endeavored to drum up business using her LinkedIn account.
Eagle and her co-founders later sold Edcomm to Sawabeh Information Services and were forced out.
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