Can a business owner’s act of posting purportedly personal content to his company’s social media page affect the ownership of that account? The answer, according to a Texas federal bankruptcy court, is no.
In a case of first impression, U.S. Bankruptcy Chief Judge Jeff Bohm of the Southern District of Texas in In re CTLI LLC, 2015 Bankr. LEXIS 1117 (Bankr. S.D. Tex. Apr. 3, 2015), rejected a gun store’s disgruntled former owner’s claim that by posting personal musings using the debtor company’s Facebook and Twitter accounts, and by changing the company’s account names to reflect his own, the accounts belonged to him personally. Rather, because the accounts were primarily used to promote the business, the court ordered the former owner to relinquish control to the estate.
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