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Building things and maintaining it as a trade secret can be protected as a trade secret. Trade secrets don't need to be copyrightable (e.g. list of customer nu
by shagie 4y ago
Building things and maintaining it as a trade secret can be protected as a trade secret.
Trade secrets don't need to be copyrightable (e.g. list of customer numbers is a trade secret but not copyrightable).
https://copyrightalliance.org/faqs/difference-copyright-patent-trademark/ https://copyrightalliance.org/faqs/difference-copyright-pate...
> Trade secret protection protects secrets from unauthorized disclosure and use by others. A trade secret is information that has an economic benefit due to its secret nature, has value to others who cannot legitimately obtain it, and is subject to reasonable efforts to maintain its secrecy. The protections afforded by trade secret law are very different from others forms of IP.
- mattnewton 4y agoI am not a lawyer, but I don’t believe a trade secret would prevent someone from reverse engineering your model’s knowledge from it’s output though, in the same way that it doesn’t prevent someone from reverse engineering your hot sauce from buying a bunch and experimenting with the ingredients until it tastes similar.
- shagie 4y agoYep, that's correct. My point was more of there are protections for things that aren't copyrightable. If the model is protected as a trade secret, then it is a trade secret. The example of the hot sauce recipe is quite apt - the recipe isn't copyrightable, but you can be certain that the secret formula for how to make Coca-Cola syrup is protected as a trade secret. https://www.coca-colacompany.com/company/history/coca-cola-formula-is-at-the-world-of-coca-cola https://www.coca-colacompany.com/company/history/coca-cola-f...