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Multi-Level Marketing Company Sufficiently Alleges Reasonable Efforts Despite Posting Trade Secret Materials to Thousands

LexBlog IP

” Defendants first argued that the network of salespeople and customer lists on Facebook were owned by them, as they have ownership interests in their Facebook profiles, and that because each defendant’s Facebook friends could see the rest of their friend network, these lists were not confidential. The court disagreed.

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Data Portability Rights versus IP – Part II

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Importantly, the DA Proposal marks the (provisional) end of the debate around the potential creation of ownership in data, or a new IP right for “data producers”. At a webinar immediately after the publication of the DA Proposal, an eminent German professor was reported to have shouted in despair: “But these new rights, what are they!?”

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