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Social Networking provides organisations with unprecedented new opportunities for customer engagement and promotion. However it also presents new and largely untested legal risks associated with employee participation on Social Networking Sites (SNS)   For organisations participating on SNS, the risks include the law relating to employment, media, technology, intellectual property, privacy, contract, torts and laws specific to industries and professional groups as enshrined in statute and case law.

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Social Media Legal Practice

 

Social Media Law aims to protect the rights of organisations (and minimise the risks) in the online connected world so as to safely harness the many benefits. A Social Media Lawyer not only understands the legal issues, but has the understanding of the social networking sites themselves, the associated human resources issues and can apply existing legal principles to new and varied situations in the online networked world across jurisdictions.

 

Organisations participating in SNS without appropriate legal protection in the form of contract provisions and policies risk brand dilution, their reputation and a range of other perils that are emerging online on a daily basis.

 

Social Media Law Advisory Services

Rostron Carlyle's Social Media Legal Services include protecting against risks by drafting specialised clauses, organisational policies and litigating to enforce your rights when appropriate:

 

Agreements and specialised clauses for contracts
	Employment agreements
	Clauses for applicable contracts
	Trademark protection protocols
	Social media legal risk training
Organisational Policies
	Social Media Policy – all staff
	Social Media Policy– staff authorised to use SNS
	Reputational risk reduction strategies
Enforcement - Litigation
	Breach of confidence
	IP & Trademark disputes
	Defamation actions
	Discrimination claims

 

Related Legal Practices

 

Rostron Carlyle also has the following related speciality Practices that can assist organisations :

 

Technology and Software Development Law

Corporate Law Practice

Intellectual Property Practice

Defamation and Media Law Practice

 

 

 

Expertise in Social Media Law

 

Rostron Carlyle's Social Media Practice is one of the first of its kind in Austrlia. It has been building its expertise over most of 2009 and is now one of the few Practices with specialist expertise in this area.

 

If your organisation needs assistance to protect itself against the lurking perils of Social Networking, whilst getting the benefits, please contact us or follow us on Twitter @ITCorplaw.

 

You'll find that Rostron Carlyle is likely to have assisted someone to do exactly what it is that you are trying to do, but you’ll find that a Rostron Carlyle Lawyer can distill a complex legal issue into a set of actionable options for you to consider.

 

A Rostron Carlyle lawyer will be a person that you can relate to.  We'’ll talk your language. Most

importantly, a relationship with a Rostron Carlyle lawyer will be "a relationship you can rely on".