RE: [dvd-discuss] FW: SJ MercuryNews, Ruling a blow for DVD industry (11-02-2001) (Emailing: dvdsuit02.htm)

["Michael A Rolenz" <Michael.A.Rolenz(at)aero.org>]

You mean this paragraph..

But if upheld, the California ruling marks an
unprecedented establishment of free speech
rights in cyberspace and could have sweeping
ramifications for the ability of businesses to
police their trade secrets on the Internet.

Well I sent off my little letter of correction....anybody else want to do 
so...feel free....odd that a SillyCone Valley paper never heard of 
dumpster diving or reverse engineering.




Richard Hartman <hartman@onetouch.com>
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11/05/01 10:13 AM
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The thing that this murky news article neglects to mention is that trade
secret protection is only from those who have the obligation to keep
the secret but do not.  And perhaps those who can be shown to have
directly stolen the secret from the owners (i.e. you break in to the vault
in Atlanta to aquire the Coca Cola recipie, but you leave your 
fingerprints
behind).
 
Independant discovery of a process that somebody else considers to
be "their secret" is _not_ legally prohibited.
 

-- 
-Richard M. Hartman 
hartman@onetouch.com 

186,000 mi./sec ... not just a good idea, it's the LAW! 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: juergen + barbara [mailto:jmhoraze@compuserve.com]
Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2001 12:25 PM
To: dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
Subject: [dvd-discuss] FW: SJ MercuryNews, Ruling a blow for DVD industry
(11-02-2001) (Emailing: dvdsuit02.htm)


 
f.y.i. -- (a bit behind in reading news, mails, etc.)
    *jm*
 

 
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