Curse takes eSportspedia twitter account, staff claims Curse does not have rights to account
Current President of eSportspedia and former Director of Marketing at Leaguepedia spoke to onGamers about this issue.
So @CurseGamepedia decided to steal back my twitter account and proceeded to delete all followers & activity - https://t.co/OWpZOabJKQ
— Matthew Gunnin (@MatthewGunnin) April 21, 2014
“When Matt Gunnin made his change to Azubu, Curse locked the staff out of the Leaguepedia twitter account. In the response on Reddit, Curse mentioned that Matt tried to take the twitter. But, initially we were locked out of the account. You can see a lapse in activity around March 11th.”
Mooney continued.
“No where in Matt’s contract with Curse is social media accounts included. This is the third time Curse has bypassed all security measures Twitter has in place to regain access.”
Regarding Curse’s response on Reddit, Mooney feels that parts of the response are misleading.
“Something I don't understand is how Matt would be able to lock down the site, this is clearly not true. [Curse] banned Matt’s account and terminated everything immediately. That’s not true, there is no way he could ‘lock down’ the site. This is new to us, and seems so fabricated that Curse would say this.”
Current director of Content at Azubu and Former Leaguepedia president claims he has the right to the account.
“By the way, I am the sole proprietor of the Leaguepedia LLC which gives me rights to the Twitter account that I created.”
In Curse’s response on Reddit, Vice President of marketing Donovan Duncan says that the former Leaguepedia staff agreed to give Curse the account back.
“We always loved the site and the team and we still do. About 6 months ago Matthew made his intentions to leave known, and we told him at the time we expected the assets we purchased to remain in place and remain under the Curse brand. We made it clear we wouldn't sell them back to him or any other company. We've spent a lot of time and energy over the past few years doing everything we could to make sure the team was taken care of (I don't want to list it all or appear to brag in any way but it was significant with trips to LCS, laptops, video equipment for the team etc. These were all part of our commitment and dedication to the team, in addition to a significant monthly stipend to Matt to keep things running).”
“Upon realizing we were serious and wanted to keep Leaguepedia (and the assets related to it) Matt attempted to lock down the site and the Twitter account used. He actually succeeded, so we took the SLOW, but legal steps to get it back via Twitter directly. They agreed with us regarding ownership of the account, and we took it back.”
Donovan Duncan has declined further comment.
