Christou v. Beatport, LLC

Christou v. Beatport, LLC
Court	United States District Court for the District of Colorado
Full case name	Christou v. Beatport, LLC
Decided	March 14, 2012
Docket nos.	1:10-cv-02912
Defendant(s)	Beatport, LLC
Citation(s)	849 F. Supp. 2d 1055
Holding
The court held that the plaintiff's MySpace profile constituted a trade secret, which the defendant had misappropriated.
Court membership
Judge(s) sitting	R. Brooke Jackson
Keywords
Trade secrets, Social media, Antitrust

Christou v. Beatport, LLC, 849 F. Supp. 2d 1055 (D. Colo. 2012), was a District Court of Colorado case in which the court held that MySpace friend lists could constitute trade secrets. While the names in the friend lists could be found in public directories, the court considered that the "ancillary information" of the friend list provided a means of contact with permission that was not publicly available.^[1]