On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 11:32 -0700, Michael Perelman wrote: > My understanding is that the theft of trade secrets is punished as any > other type of theft, while downloading software is punished under > specific intellectual property law.
I don't know of any jurisdiction where "theft" applies to trade secrets as for tangible goods, but IANAL. Of course if you enter illegally some building or really steal a laptop or USB key then that's regular property law which applies first. In the USA there seem to be a mix of contract law (NDA and like) and specific state laws that govern trade secrets: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_secret http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Trade_Secrets_Act Note that UTSA is only civil and not criminal. Laurent _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
