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Public Material is the material the Company chose to make Public. Many legal terms are different from their definition in OED.

• smsm42 5y ago
  That means if something is published in the NYT but the company didn't explicitly ask NYT to publish it, you have to treat it as private. This makes zero sense. And I want to see somebody try to win a legal case based on the theory that something published in NYT is not "public" because they didn't "choose" to make it public.
  • djbusby 5y ago
    You've shifted the context to argue a nonsense point. If NYT published info, and that's how you became aware of it, yes, it's Public. But that was not the context I was replying to. My reply is in the context an individual employee making private information public. A journalist informing GenPop of data is very different than an employee leaking. Talk to your contracts or securities council for the details - scope and context are important.
  • shalmanese 5y ago
    Many government contractors couldn’t legally read the Snowden papers despite them being published in newspapers because they weren’t declassified.
    • smsm42 5y ago
      Classified info has different rules. The government never plays by the same rules as mere plebes.