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Just because they cannot be copyrighted doesn’t mean that they cannot be considered a trade secret. The agreement for using the product could done with an NDA.
by clbrmbr 4y ago
Just because they cannot be copyrighted doesn’t mean that they cannot be considered a trade secret. The agreement for using the product could done with an NDA. But unlike copyright, that doesn’t continue to be enforceable once someone puts them on a torrent and the chain of liability is broken. /notalawyereither
- dchest 4y agoYeah, this happened with RC4 cipher which used to be a trade secret until someone posted it on Usenet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RC4#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RC4#History
- throwaway1851 4y agoWell, trade secret law requires the owner of the trade secret to take steps to keep it... secret. Facebook has done the opposite, and they haven’t made the people they distributed the weights to sign an NDA.
- ronsor 4y agoAnd Facebook employees openly discuss the torrent magnet links.