The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act — Effective Weapon Against Disloyal Employees?

The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act — Effective Weapon Against Disloyal Employees?

Employers have typically used several legal theories in actions against disloyal former employees — copyright infringement for copying copyrighted code, trade secret misappropriation where the employee misuses or discloses confidential information or trade secrets, and possibly breach on a non-competition covenant.
Now, there’s another theory derived from the federal Computer Fraud And Abuse Act — a [...]

Copyright, Copyrighting and Online Copyright Abuse. Save Yourself the Headache by Reading This!

Lets start with copyright infringement.
It is easily explained as copying someone else’s work without
gaining permission first. This includes publishing other peoples
work to your web site, newspaper, magazine or even just
downloading it to your computer can be seen as copyright
infringement. The last is known as a grey area.
Other peoples work means anything created by [...]


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