If I created the company’s social media pages, do I own them?
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If I created the company’s social media pages, do I own them?
I was title business development and in charge of marketing. My father and CEO fired me because of (his) personal reasons. The CEO and his business partner are now trying to say I was fired for deletion of social media pages. Which I did after the fact of being fired because I own them, they were under my name. Do I own the social media pages?
Asked on July 10, 2015 under Employment Labor Law, Arizona
Answers:
Anne Brady / Law Office of Anne Brady
Answered 9 years ago | Contributor
No, if you were working for the company when you put the sites up, then the company owns them because they were paying you to do the work of creating them and putting them up. The Web sites are the company's intellectual property, and they could choose to sue you to force you to put them back up or for the value of the pages.
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