Susan Park, chair of the Department of Management and associate professor of legal studies in business, learned recently that her co-authored article “Digital Self-Ownership: A Publicity-Rights Framework for Determining Social Media Rights,” won the 2016 ABLJ Hoeber Memorial Award for Excellence in Research.
Park’s article, co-authored with Patricia Sánchez Abril, examines the right of employees to control a social media profile and its audience. Relying on the legal concept of publicity rights, it argues that employees should be entitled to protection and post-employment retention of social media unless the work falls squarely within the scope of employment.
The article is published in the American Business Law Journal, an Academy of Legal Studies in Business publication and a leading U.S. business law journal.