AJ 025 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Uniform Trade Secrets Act, Espionage Act Of 1917, Industrial Espionage

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Administration of Justice (AJ)
• Course: AJ 025
• Professor: shirk

Document Summary

Stealing confidential business data by industrial espionage (ie. tapping into a competitor"s computer) = theft of trade secrets without any contractual violation. Protected under common law + uniform trade secrets act (adopted by 47 states) Economic espionage act made theft of trade secrets a federal crime. Computer tech makes it hard for firms to protect confidential info. Dishonest employee can email docs to competitor from work computer. Misusing a company"s social media accounts = appropriation of trade secrets. If a u. s. citizen writes a book, every country that signed the convention must recognize the copyright in the book. If a citizen from a country that hasn"t signed the convention first publishes a book in a country that has signed, all included countries must recognize copyright. Eu altered its copyright rules by extending period of royalty protection for musicians from 50 years to 70 years.