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Nasir and Matt talk about what to do when someone outside of your business takes control of your social media. They also answer the question, "Who can sign off on an agreement for a specific type of entity?" Full Podcast Transcript NASIR: Welcome to Legally Sound Smart Business. This is… Matt Staub. MATT: Oh. NASIR: And Nasir Pasha. MATT: I would like to be introduced first one time, I guess. We’re only 89 episodes in, it’s still yet to happen, but… NASIR: One day. MATT: You never know. Actually, no, the one time you weren’t there, I introduced myself first. NASIR: Oh, that’s right. MATT: I forgot about that. NASIR: Oh, because it was a best of episode. You like to talk about that time that you did it by yourself. That’s interesting. MATT: It was only, like, a minute long at most. NASIR: All right. Well, welcome to the business law podcast. This is where we cover business in the news and also answer some of your business legal questions that you, the listener, can send in to ask@legallysoundsmartbusiness.com. MATT: Or you can send direct tweets or direct messages through Twitter @askbizlaw. NASIR: @askbizlaw. MATT: I wonder how we got that name. It seems like that would have been taken. NASIR: I was going to put ask@legallysoundsmartbusiness.com or @smartbusiness but it was so long and I didn’t want to put the acronym because that didn’t really look right, and “Legally Sound” was too long too or something, I don’t remember. MATT: Yeah, we left out. NASIR: Yeah, it was a good one. MATT: So, what do we have on the docket today? We’re talking about Facebook. NASIR: On the docket, I like that. MATT: Yeah, and we’re talking about Facebook likes specifically. I know our Legally Sound Facebook page has hundreds of thousands of likes because we’ve paid lots of money for that. NASIR: About a dollar. MATT: No, just joking. NASIR: All international. MATT: Let’s talk about in the story $500 for 10,000 likes, it seems like a good deal, I guess. NASIR: I think that’s for US likes, though, right? MATT: For $500, you get 10,000 likes in the US. There’s a cheaper rate for international. NASIR: What does it matter where it comes from if you’re just paying for likes? It’s still just a number. No one can see – or maybe they can, I don’t know. MATT: Anyways, well, I guess we’re not getting off-topic because that’s kind of the story here. NASIR: Let’s not talk about Facebook likes anymore, that’s off-topic. MATT: Who owns these Facebook likes? That’s really the question that it comes down to and this all came about because I guess there was a show that was on BET which I’m not really familiar with the show. NASIR: Called “The Game.” I’ve never heard of it myself. MATT: The Game, yeah. They started a show, it went off-air, but their Facebook page lived on and they ended up getting two million likes on this Facebook page for this show. So, BET was trying to say, “Hey, you need to give us these likes,” I guess. I’m not even sure how this works. Because they have the likes, do they have the information for all those people? Is that what it’s boiling down to? NASIR: I’m trying to think about it. I don’t think you have very much information. But this case comes with a story, just like any court case. I think it’s semi-interesting that, even though this fan page came out when the show came out, the person who ran it was not an employee or even associated with the show. So, it wasn’t an actual official page. But, after the show went off-air, it continued to just get more likes and I think people missed it or whatever – who knows? And then, when it came back, instead of the game, the show BET creating their own new page, they were like, “Okay, well, this page is still out there, let’s just use hers. This is just some fan.” And so, they entered into some kind of contract agreement where she’d post for her and she’d be paid like, $3,000 or $4,000 per month, and there are some different terms in there. But then,