Presentation from Leanne O'Donnell at the 2013 Social Media Risk Management conference run by Dialogue Consulting in Melbourne, 19 June 2013

1. Leanne O’Donnell, Senior Lawyer
Twitter: @MsLods E: leanne@ntegrity.com.au
Linkedin: http://au.linkedin.com/in/mslods
(Image Credit: Sofia Peresoa, Wikimedia Commons)

2. Social media and the Courts
 #iitrial — Australia’s first twitter hashtag to go from trial to
the High Court

3.  Sharing photos and gifs you don't own copyright in on
sites like Facebook and Tumblr is off-limits - unless you
have actual permission from the copyright holder
 You can watch a clip on YouTube, but you can't include it
in a presentation to colleagues at work, or for a
conference.
 Twitter and Facebook’s copyright rules & policies

4.  The Australian #twitdef
 Jurisdiction Cairns v Modi
Credit: Keith Page, Wikimedia Commons
 McAlpine judgment “Why is Lord McAlpine trending?
*Innocent face*"

5.  World of mouth &
the Streisand effect
 The Twitter Rules
Trade mark: Twitter reserves the right to reclaim user
names on behalf of businesses or individuals that hold
legal claim or trade mark on those user names.

6.  Recruitment
 Confidential information
 Who owns an employee’s social media contacts?
 Dismissal due to social media posts: Tram driver &
Linfox cases
“The fact that the comments were made on the applicant’s home
computer, out of work hours, does not make any difference“.
The Good Guys case

7. Social media policy, guidelines + ongoing training
Companies and social media. The message from the
regulators?: Monitor
ASIC guidance note on market disclosures & sm advice

8. Credit: Franklin D. Roosevelt
Library Public Domain
Photographs, Wikimedia
Commons