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Re: Legal Legal legal
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lugnet.lego.direct
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Wed, 9 Aug 2000 01:25:47 GMT
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James Powell wrote:
> In lugnet.lego.direct, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
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> > Tim Wilkins wrote:
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> > > I read with amusement some of the posts on legal matters concerning leaked
> > > information. I treat this site as a discussion group. People just talking
> > > about Lego etc just as if they were face to face. What has this got to do • with
> > > lawyers ??? If someone has some information and want to share it.....why not
> > > share it.And as for the legal issues.........this is purely a US thing....we
> > > in Europe have freedom of information,freedom of speech etc etc
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> > You're not seriously advocating that European companies and governments keep • no
> > secrets and allow the release of confidential corporate information pell-mell, • are
> > you?
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> No, but what he is saying is that LEGO has to contact each of us and _ask_ us
> to sign a NDA, which there is not a _thing_ they can do to make us sign.
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> In other words, once the cat is out of the bag, it is too late for anyone to do
> anything about stuffing it back into the bag, unless they have a "compelling
> Legal Reason" or such like to manage to do so, and the set names and numbers
> would not fall into that catagory.
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> This information is not (as far as I can tell) protected in any manner, other
> than by internal threats (we'll fire you if you tell people about our stuff,
> and sue you for breach of contract), but, since I have NEVER signed a contract
> to work for LSI, I cannot be held by LSI to have any accountability to them.
I definitely see your point. This sort of murkiness is, of course, what the civil
courts of the world are for--someone has to decide if confidentiality was actually
breached. I don't want to get into the wrinkles of Internet copyright law (that's
a related .debate) but as Todd said, best to err on the side of caution when you're
a large target. This is especially true when you're a large target that's trying
to stay friendly with TLG.
That said, don't think for a moment that I didn't write everything down that I
could, and that there's any way I'll destroy said printout even if TLG asks
menacingly.
My issue with the originating post is that the underlying issue is not "Europe =
free and open, US = censored and litigous." (Leaving aside the rest of the
Americas, of course) This isn't a matter of geographic location, it's one of
corporate privacy that involves a multinational and a discussion forum that happens
to be located in the United States.
best
LFB
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| (...) with (...) no (...) are (...) No, but what he is saying is that LEGO has to contact each of us and _ask_ us to sign a NDA, which there is not a _thing_ they can do to make us sign. In other words, once the cat is out of the bag, it is too late (...) (24 years ago, 9-Aug-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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