Rethink(IP) - Eavesdrop

Wow. Great question. Employee blogs create many tough issues, intellectual
property being only one of them. But, that's what we're here for so let's
tackle that one.

Release of company intellectual property, intentionally or inadvertently, by
employees is an old problem. Blogs are simply a new technology that provide
a new mechanism for the release to be made. In that sense, existing
policies can be applied to this new technology - business organizations
should take appropriate action when releases occur. Because blogs make it
so easy to publish information to the public at large, I think that special
controls are in order for some organizations. Once it is known that one or
more employees are running relevant blogs, I would be sure to make it
someone's job to monitor the content of the blog. Ideally, the responsible
person would have knowledge of the organization's intellectual property and
would be a part of a group that understands the rights and duties involved.
The legal group seems like the best candidate.

I would not, however, establish a "blog compliance" system of manuals and
officers, seeing that as having potential to be restrictive on the
employee's rights.

-- Matt

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