On Thursday 21 July, the BBC lost 60,000 Twitter followers to ITV when Laura Kuenssberg renamed her @BBCLauraK account @ITVLauraK. I think the BBC had a pretty decent ownership claim on the @BBCLauraK Twitter account.

Whilst most employment contracts explicitly prohibit employees taking copyrighted assets with them when parting ways with their employer, it is unclear as to whether social media assets like Facebook pages or Twitter profiles are covered by such clauses.