On February 10, Elon Law professor David Levine presented a talk entitled "The People's Trade Secrets?" at Yale Law School, through the school's Information Society Project speaker series.
The Information Society Project at Yale Law School addresses the implications of the Internet and new information technologies for law and society.
Levine’s presentation explored whether a government trade secret should be allowed to exist, and, if so, whether governments should be allowed to shield government trade secrets from public disclosure.
“Today, the government of the people can keep information from the people by way of the commercial, intellectual property law of trade secrecy,” Levine’s presentation summary states. “Strangely, the people – citizens of states and the United States – apparently have trade secrets that they themselves cannot see. In other words, there is information that the government itself creates on its own (a ‘government trade secret’) and that courts or attorneys general have found meet the applicable definition of a trade secret.”
Click here for a detailed summary of Levine’s presentation and additional information about the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.
Click here for more information about Elon Law professor David Levine, who is also an affiliate scholar at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School and the founder and host of Hearsay Culture, a technology and intellectual property law radio show and podcast that was chosen as one of the top five podcasts in the American Bar Association’s Blawg 100 of 2008.