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Re: Legal Legal legal
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lugnet.lego.direct
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Wed, 9 Aug 2000 01:29:05 GMT
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"James Powell" <wx732@freenet.victoria.bc.ca> wrote in message
news:Fz029E.At8@lugnet.com...
> In lugnet.lego.direct, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
> >
> >
> > 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.
Hmm. I didn't make that out of Tim's posting, but you raise an interesting
point.
> 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.
Yup, once the info is in the public most European companies would make a
statement that "does not deny and does not confirm the rumour". While it's
too late to stuff the cat back in, the best next thing is to cover it's
trails and remove the already leaked out info and try to keep the damages
minimal by cleaning out the source.
> 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.
IANAL, but I don't think LSI can take legal actions against the origional
poster (or LUGNET), they probably can take action against Target for not
safeguarding their information well enough since they have probably signed a
contract about this kind of stuff.
--
Frank Buiting
Visit the LEGO Lexicon: http://members.chello.nl/~f.buiting/lego/
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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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