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Who Owns Your Online Networking Contacts?

Posted by kdawson on from the nothing-personal dept.

Ben Morris writes "A recent judgement in the UK courts has forced a former employee to hand over details of his business contacts built up through LinkedIn.com while he was employed by his former company. The decision is one of the first in the UK to show the tension between businesses encouraging their employees to use social networking websites, and trying to claim that the contacts should remain confidential when they leave."

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  1. Re:Devil is in the details by MacJedi · · Score: 5, Informative

    some people might say that a "list" is not the "property" of anyone.

    Those people would be wrong. Depending on your jurisdiction databases (lists) may be covered by copyright or database rights[1].

    1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_right

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