Thanks for sharing.
Although it seems to me it does not add pretty much anything to what best practices say in terms of information management within a corporate environment (no matter the support or devices used to fix, store, transmit, deliver, distribute etc etc contents that employees create on behalf of an employer) it is a very interesting judgement with regard to the sector and the technology used. I think the question of 'ownership' of information in this case (and in the context of facts - not just the law - described by the Judge) it is really inconsistent and I understand why the decision explicitely says so in quite brutal terms (almost sounds to me like the Judge wanted to remark 'forget trying to trivialize copyright principles with instrumental litigations where the true point is that you are poor at managing communication, relationships and technologies').
Anyway a completely different matter of liabilities arises in my opinion when the relationship context is not so clear such employers - employees at the beginning, in terms of data usage (for instance, landlord - tenant or client - supplier).
Brunella Longo
Information Management Adviser
http://www.brunellalongo.co.uk
p.s. I would also add that the moral ownership of this message stays with me forever and if you do not quote me as the author of what I have written above I may not file courts papers against you but you are wrong and you know you are wrong. I would not like to be in your shoes. Cheers :)
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