A recent lawsuit  filed earlier this year is gaining a lot of coverage lately, as it’s likely to set new precedents in social media – if it ever makes it to court.

The case centers around the question of whether a Twitter account belongs to a company or the individual behind it. Noah Kravitz worked for PhoneDog.com for four years and during that time he Tweeted using the handle @PhoneDog_Noah. When he left the company, Kravitz said PhoneDog agreed he could keep the Twitter account, so he changed the name to @NoahKravitz and kept his followers. Eight months later, PhoneDog filed a lawsuit alleging that Kravitz had been Tweeting from an account he was “given use of” during his time at PhoneDog and the followers were technically a customer list belonging to PhoneDog.