News Organizations Support Bloggers In Apple Trade Secrets Case

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News Organizations Support Bloggers In
Apple Trade-Secrets Case (TechWeb)

News Organizations Support Bloggers In
Apple Trade-Secrets Case (TechWeb) 04/13/2005 04:21 AM
TechWeb - Eight of California's largest newspapers and The Associated Press have submitted a court brief seeking to overturn a court ruling ordering three bloggers to reveal their sources to Apple Computer.

News organizations support Mac sites in
Apple Case

News organizations support Mac sites in
Apple Case 04/11/2005 05:41 PM
Eight of California's largest newspapers -- including the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle and the San Jose Mercury News -- and The Associated Press are supporting three online Mac journalists who published details on an unreleased Apple product...

News Cos. Support Reporters in Apple
Case (AP)

News Cos. Support Reporters in Apple
Case (AP) 04/11/2005 05:02 PM
AP - More than a half-dozen news organizations are supporting three online journalists who published articles about a top-secret technology product that Apple Computer Inc. says was protected by trade secret laws.

Apple sues over trade secrets

Apple sues over trade secrets 01/05/2005 01:58 PM
Lawsuit adds credibility to several hot rumors including plans to offer cheaper Mac and its own line of office software.

Apple: 'Protection of our trade secrets
is crucial'

Apple: 'Protection of our trade secrets
is crucial' 12/19/2004 03:33 PM
Apple has confirmed that it is suing anonymous people who leaked information about an unannounced product on the Internet...

Appeal Filed in Apple Trade Secrets Suit
(AP)

Appeal Filed in Apple Trade Secrets Suit
(AP) 03/22/2005 09:33 PM
AP - Online journalists who published secrets about Apple Computer Inc. filed an appeal Tuesday in a case that could have broad implications for the media.

Appeal filed in Apple trade secrets suit

Appeal filed in Apple trade secrets suit 03/23/2005 08:02 AM
San Jose Mercury News Mar 23 2005 10:14AM GMT

Journalists appeal Apple trade secrets
suit

Journalists appeal Apple trade secrets
suit 03/23/2005 05:21 PM
Online journalists who published trade secrets about Apple back in December filed an appeal Tuesday arguing that the ruling violated the First Amendment and that Apple should first subpoena its employees or use computer forensics to determine the sources of the leak. Apple filed a civil complaint against unnamed individuals who allegedly stole trade secrets and posted detailed information about an unannounced Apple product last December, and on March 11, a California judge ruled that Apple has the right to subpoena the records of the three Macintosh sites that published details on an unreleased Apple product. "The California courts have a long history of supporting and protecting the freedom of the press," attorney Kurt Opsahl said representing the journalists. "The Court of Appeal will now get the opportunity to correct a ruling that endangers all journalists."

Apple sues ThinkSecret for posting its
trade secrets

Apple sues ThinkSecret for posting its
trade secrets 01/05/2005 04:10 PM
Apple has filed a third lawsuit in less than a month, this time against the publisher of the Think Secret website and other unnamed individuals, alleging that recent postings on the site contain Apple trade secrets, according to court documents seen by CNET News.com. "Apple has filed a civil complaint against the owner of ThinkSecret.com and unnamed individuals who we believe stole Apple's trade secrets," Apple said in its statement to CNET. "We believe that Think Secret solicited information about unreleased Apple products from these individuals, who violated their confidentiality agreements with Apple by providing details that were later posted on the Internet." In its suit, Apple specifically lists certain articles that contain confidential information, though it does not confirm which of the article's details are true. For example, when mentioning the report that Apple plans a "G4-based iMac without display," Apple says the article "disclosed numerous confidential details regarding the technical capabilities of Apple's unreleased computer product as well as Apple's confidential marketing plans." The CNET report says similar confirmation is offered regarding iWork, which Think Secret said on Dec. 31 would be a suite of office software combining the company's Keynote presentation program with a new document creation application called Pages. "The postings on Think Secret included detailed technical specifications and product code names," the lawsuit maintains. "Apple had maintained and protected this Future Product Information as trade secrets." Apple also mentions articles that discussed updates to the company's iLife suite as having "disclosed various technical specifications regarding Apple's unreleased 'iLife '05' software product." This latest lawsuit is the company's third intellectual property suit in recent weeks. In other court cases, Apple is suing two developers who it says distributed prerelease versions of Tiger. In a separate action, it is suing unnamed individuals who leaked details about a forthcoming music device code-named Asteroid. Apple won court permission to issue subpoenas to Think Secret and two other Mac enthusiast sites in an effort to ferret out who leaked the information.

Trade secrets trump journalism? Apple
gets favorable ruling

Trade secrets trump journalism? Apple
gets favorable ruling 03/14/2005 04:51 PM
Apple wins another round in its ongoing battle against Mac news sites over leaks about upcoming products.

Mac sites file appeal in Apple trade
secrets suit

Mac sites file appeal in Apple trade
secrets suit 03/22/2005 09:06 PM
Two Mac sites accused of publishing Apple trade secrets filed an appeal Tuesday in their case with the company...

Apple bl0ggers get press support

Apple bl0ggers get press support 04/12/2005 05:51 AM
Eight US newspapers throw their support behind three bloggers sued by Apple for releasing new product details.

Appeal Filed in Apple Trade Secret Case

Appeal Filed in Apple Trade Secret Case 03/23/2005 04:43 PM
The EFF has appealed a court ruling issued earlier this month that would force Web sites to hand over their sources to Apple. California Superior Court Judge James Kleinberg ruled that journalist protections not apply to the sites, as trade secrets were revealed in violation of state law.

Other News: Apple Trade-in

Other News: Apple Trade-in 08/12/2004 11:27 AM
Apple Europe offers a Mac trade-in scheme... sort of.

The news of the Air Force and White
Housedisproving the allegations about
the Bush medal cameFriday, as CBS News
and other news organizations werereeling
from the disclosure that they had
publish

The news of the Air Force and White
Housedisproving the allegations about
the Bush medal cameFriday, as CBS News
and other news organizations werereeling
from the disclosure that they had
publish 09/14/2004 07:17 AM
this led to Air Force responses .. shitty start .. Thus sinks

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Bloggers Speak Out on the Apple Case
(including Boing Boing)

Bloggers Speak Out on the Apple Case
(including Boing Boing) 04/12/2005 03:56 AM
Xeni Jardin: Donna Wentworth from the EFF says:

Online journalism has friends -- lots of them. Jack Balkin, Eugene Volokh, Feedster, Gawker Media, Joi Ito, Gothamist, Rebecca MacKinnon, Groklaw, Jay Rosen, Groklaw, Glenn Reynolds (a.k.a. "Instapundit,"), Markos Moulitsas (a.k.a. "Kos") and many, many more filed a joint "friend-of-the-court" brief (PDF) today supporting the journalists in Apple v. Does -- the case in which Apple Computer is seeking to unmask online journalists' confidential sources for articles about forthcoming Apple products. They argue that journalism is a verb, not a noun -- to adopt a functional test that "will not impede journalists' use of the Internet to report news by limiting their constitutional protections when they publish there."

All of us here at Boing Boing were also proud to sign on to this brief. Link

"Trade Secrets"

"Trade Secrets" 09/17/2004 08:32 PM

IHT: With bl0ggers inside, Davos secrets
are out

IHT: With bl0ggers inside, Davos secrets
are out 01/28/2004 08:43 AM
With bloggers inside, Davos secrets are outTell-all accounts proliferate on the Web .. International Herald Tribune .. full article

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With bl0ggers inside, Davos secrets are
out

With bl0ggers inside, Davos secrets are
out 01/27/2004 11:31 AM

Thomas Crampton's article in the International Herald Tribune about us blogging Davos just came out. The IHT may be a good blog, but it sure does take a long time to post articles...

Thomas Crampton @ IHT

Tell-all accounts proliferate on the Web
 
DAVOS, SwitzerlandThis year the barbarians were not protesting at the gates of the World Economic Forum; they were inside and blogging.

Apple's "Trade Secrets"

Apple's "Trade Secrets" 03/14/2005 05:51 PM

Companies will simply slap "trade secret" protection on everything they do, and any reporter who gets a scoop on anything the company doesn't want the public to know about will be under a legal threat. By Dan Gillmor, Grassroots Journalism

With bl0ggers inside, Davos secrets are
out - IHT article

With bl0ggers inside, Davos secrets are
out - IHT article 01/28/2004 05:17 AM

Three chief executive officer participants at the World Economic Forum prepare public Internet blogs about their experiences in the ultra-exclusive retreat of the world's wealthy and powerful. Seated from left to right Loic Le Meur, CEO of Ublog, a Paris-based blog company; Yat Siu, CEO of Outblaze, a Hong Kong-based email service company and Joichi Ito, CEO of Neoteny Company Limited, a Japan-based venture capital firm. PHOTO AND CAPTION BY THOMAS CRAMPTON No... I'm not about to punch Loic. My fist is an expression of our solidarity. -- Joi

Thomas Crampton's article in the International Herald Tribune about us blogging Davos just came out. The IHT may be a good blog, but it sure does take a long time to post articles...

Thomas Crampton @ IHT

With bloggers inside, Davos secrets are out
Tell-all accounts proliferate on the Web

DAVOS, Switzerland This year the barbarians were not protesting at the gates of the World Economic Forum; they were inside and blogging.

SCO Sues IBM Over Unix Trade Secrets

SCO Sues IBM Over Unix Trade Secrets 03/11/2003 01:22 AM

Seagate Files Lawsuit over Trade Secrets

Seagate Files Lawsuit over Trade Secrets 08/06/2004 09:57 PM
Seagate Technology has filed a complaint in a Minnesota court attempting to prevent one of its ex-employees from joining Western Digital, a competitor.Pete Goglia recently left Seagate Technology LLC to join Western Digital Corp., where he will lead that company's read/write head development after serving at Seagate for 16 years. Seagate is attempting to block the hire, claiming that Goglia will not be able to avoid disclosing Seagate confidential information and trade secrets in the course of his new job.

"This is a situation in which one of our competitors has recently acquired the read/write head assets from a bankrupt supplier, and has stated their need to strengthen their capabilities in that technology," Dave Wickersham, Seagate's chief operating officer, said in a statement released late Friday. "We do not wish to impugn Mr. Goglia, but only to ensure that Western Digital does not build its new recording head capabilities with Seagate trade secrets."

News source: eWeek

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Other News: Apple Support Kudos

Other News: Apple Support Kudos 05/11/2004 09:13 AM
Consumer Reports ranks Apple support above Dell's and others'.

Appeal filed in suit on Apple's trade
secrets

Appeal filed in suit on Apple's trade
secrets 03/23/2005 04:52 AM
Houston Chronicle Mar 23 2005 8:59AM GMT

Toshiba ordered to pay Lexar $380M in
trade secrets suit

Toshiba ordered to pay Lexar $380M in
trade secrets suit 03/24/2005 07:44 PM
A California Superior Court jury has ordered Toshiba Corp. and one of its U.S. units to pay Lexar Media $380 million in a fight between the two companies over the theft of trade secrets.

News: Apple updates Xsan to 1.1, adds
Tiger support

News: Apple updates Xsan to 1.1, adds
Tiger support 06/22/2005 02:33 AM
Apple has updated its Xsan software with new features and support for Mac OS X Tiger.

TSMC lawsuit alleges China chip maker
stole trade secrets

TSMC lawsuit alleges China chip maker
stole trade secrets 12/22/2003 05:26 PM
In it suit, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. alleges that Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. infringed on TSMC patents and misappropriated trade secrets.

Can News Organizations Train Citizen
Journalists?

Can News Organizations Train Citizen
Journalists? 04/14/2005 04:59 PM
With all the talk recently about "citizen journalism" and getting everyone to report on news events as they occur, many in the traditional media are dismissing these citizen journalism efforts as being "not journalism" or just plain "bad." Generally, though, those who are responding this way are probably doing so because they actually feel threatened by these efforts. A smarter move might be to embrace the efforts, and while recognizing that many of the citizen journalist reports will have problems, look for ways to help improve them. The folks at E-Media Tidbits are suggesting that traditional news organizations actively look into training so-called citizen journalists. They can complain all they want about the quality, but this is an opportunity to actually help improve that quality. The idea is that a "trained" citizen journalist gets some sort of status that makes it easier for their material to rise to the top. While it's not clear if this particular suggestion really does make sense (or if it's just a way of trying to add another layer of "certification" to the process), it's still good to see some at least thinking about ways in which traditional news organizations can work with these new efforts -- rather than simply scoffing at them and pretending they don't exist.

Amid Hurricane, News Organizations Get
Readers' Help

Amid Hurricane, News Organizations Get
Readers' Help 08/27/2004 01:28 PM
UPDATED TBO.com, the website of several Tampa Bay area news organizations, asked its readers for help during Hurricane Charley. The readers came through, says Jim Riley, senior editor for content at the organization, who says:

The links can be viewed from http://www.tbo.com/hurrica necharley/ ...look under the blue Special Reports stripe under "Your Voice" and you'll see five user photo galleries followed by "Damage Reports" and "Riding Out The Storm."

Direct links: Through Your Lens:
* Aug. 17, 2004 Aftermath
* Aug. 16, 2004: Aftermath
* Aug. 15, 2004: Aftermath
* Aug. 14, 2004: Aftermath
* Aug. 13, 2004: Preparation

Damage Reports:
* Read Submissions
Riding Out The Storm:
* Read Submissions Updated to repair broken links.

Jacuzzi Brands, Inc. Seeks Removal of
$10 Million Theft of Trade Secrets
Action from "Rocket Docket" of Eastern
Virgina

Jacuzzi Brands, Inc. Seeks Removal of
$10 Million Theft of Trade Secrets
Action from "Rocket Docket" of Eastern
Virgina 06/01/2004 02:39 AM
Jacuzzi Brands, Inc. Seeks Removal of $10 Million Theft of Trade Secrets action, filed against it by a former supplier based on Jacuzzi's alleged copying of the suppliers product, from "Rocket Docket" of Eastern Virgina to the Federal Central District of California where reports of multi-year delays in complex civil trials due to enormous caseloads are common. [PRWEB Jun 1, 2004]

Judge in Oracle case won't seal business
secrets

Judge in Oracle case won't seal business
secrets 04/16/2004 05:17 PM
"This is not a national security case," Judge Vaughn Walker replies to concerns about proprietary business information that may be submitted as evidence to the court by Oracle, competitors and clients.

Amway Quixtar Kingpin Settles Lawsuit to
Avoid Multi-Million Dollar Charges of
Fraud, Copyright Infringement and Theft
of Trade Secrets

Amway Quixtar Kingpin Settles Lawsuit to
Avoid Multi-Million Dollar Charges of
Fraud, Copyright Infringement and Theft
of Trade Secrets 03/29/2005 03:55 AM
Maybe Dateline NBC got it right? It's a "dirty little secret" and once again, it's the public that's left in the dark about how the almighty dollar is made in this network marketing opportunity. [PRWEB Mar 29, 2005]

Bloggers Select Their Favorite Fictional
Characters - Right Wing News
(Conservative News and Views)

Bloggers Select Their Favorite Fictional
Characters - Right Wing News
(Conservative News and Views) 06/14/2004 08:06 AM
Bloggers Select Their Favorite Fictional Characters .. latest survey .. the list here

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Right-Of-Center Bloggers Select The
Books That Have Had The Biggest Impact
On Their Thinking - Right Wing News
(Conservative News and Views)

Right-Of-Center Bloggers Select The
Books That Have Had The Biggest Impact
On Their Thinking - Right Wing News
(Conservative News and Views) 10/29/2003 09:10 AM
books that most influenced .. the results of his survey .. The Righty List .. Rightwing News .. John Hawkins .. latest poll .. Top 20

rightwingnews.com/blogsel/books.php
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Right-Of-Center Bloggers Select
History's Most Interesting Dinner
Companions - Right Wing News
(Conservative News and Views)

Right-Of-Center Bloggers Select
History's Most Interesting Dinner
Companions - Right Wing News
(Conservative News and Views) 11/10/2003 11:35 PM
The results of John Hawkins' latest survey are in .. History's Most Interesting Dinner Companions .. best dinner guests .. Right Wing News

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Scotsman.com News - Latest News -
Thailand May Have Delayed Tsunami
Warning to Save Tourist Trade

Scotsman.com News - Latest News -
Thailand May Have Delayed Tsunami
Warning to Save Tourist Trade 01/01/2005 04:59 PM

All Headline News Expands It's Service
Offerings for Charities,
Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO's)
and Accredited Educational Institutions

All Headline News Expands It's Service
Offerings for Charities,
Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO's)
and Accredited Educational Institutions 03/23/2005 04:45 AM
Registered 501(c)(3) charities, qualifying non-governmental organizations (NGO's) and accredited educational institutions can now receive expanded news and content delivery services from All Headline News Corp. [PRWEB Mar 23, 2005]

Defining Trade Secrets, Not Defining
Journalists

Defining Trade Secrets, Not Defining
Journalists 03/24/2005 02:23 PM
In the Apple vs rumor sites case, the press has built it up as a question of whether or not bloggers deserve the same protections as journalists (which many have extended to mean "are bloggers journalists?" -- which is a silly question, when you think about it). However, in the decision concerning subpoenas, the judge clear ly avoided the issue for a good reason. It really had little to do with the case at hand. Instead, the question is what's the definition of a trade secret? The judge made it clear that if this was a trade secret violation, then any journalist would be just as guilty -- since this isn't so much about "whistle-blowing" as it is about revealing product data before it was to officially be released. Of course, that complicates matters. What if the process of whistle blowing also involves revealing trade secrets? In most cases, it does. It seems like, for now, the test being used is whether or not it's a public safety or health issue, in which case it becomes protected whistle-blowing. If it's just product data, then it might not be protected.
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