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By Mark Vester
According to a recent piece in The Guardian, WBA junior welterweight champion Amir Khan and his promoter Frank Warren are considering a legal suit social networking site Facebook. The two have had sent their lawyers after Facebook, threatening the company with legal action. The possible legal suit has to do with "bogus" pages that contain the images and names of Warren/Khan being posted alongside material that both men consider to be defamatory and racist.
"The problem is when you search for a celebrity on the site you also come across pages using the celebrity's name and image that have no official link but in some instances are full of defamatory and illegal content," said Stephen Taylor Heath, head of sports and media at Lupton Fawcett.
"At the moment the owners of Facebook do not seem to be taking this problem seriously. We have written to them outlining our concerns but all we received was a standard acknowledgement. We are still awaiting a response from their legal department."
According to a recent piece in The Guardian, WBA junior welterweight champion Amir Khan and his promoter Frank Warren are considering a legal suit social networking site Facebook. The two have had sent their lawyers after Facebook, threatening the company with legal action. The possible legal suit has to do with "bogus" pages that contain the images and names of Warren/Khan being posted alongside material that both men consider to be defamatory and racist.
"The problem is when you search for a celebrity on the site you also come across pages using the celebrity's name and image that have no official link but in some instances are full of defamatory and illegal content," said Stephen Taylor Heath, head of sports and media at Lupton Fawcett.
"At the moment the owners of Facebook do not seem to be taking this problem seriously. We have written to them outlining our concerns but all we received was a standard acknowledgement. We are still awaiting a response from their legal department."