La Protection Des Secrets D Affaires The Protection Of Trade Secrets

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Les Éditions Anthemis vous proposent un outil complet pour comprendre le secret en droit. Le secret en droit administratif par Marc Joassart, premier auditeur au Conseil d’Etat, collaborateur scientifique à l’UCL Alors qu’il aura longtemps été la règle en droit administratif, le secret est aujourd’hui devenu l’exception. Le droit d’accès aux documents administratifs est consacré par la Constitution. Les législations relatives à la publicité de l’administration et celle relative à la motivation formelle des actes administratifs fixent les modalités d’application de ce droit fondamental pour le public. Il n’est toutefois pas absolu et le secret reste d’application dans certains domaines. Les hypothèses dans lesquelles le secret reste admis en droit administratif seront examinées, ainsi que le régime des habilitations de sécurité et la confidentialité des pièces devant le Conseil d’État. La directive du 8 juin 2016 sur la protection des secrets d’affaires par Vincent Cassiers, chargé de cours à l’UCL, avocat au barreau de Bruxelles et Alain Strowel, professeur à l’USL-B et à l’UCL, avocat au barreau de Bruxelles La directive sur les secrets d’affaires harmonise la protection juridique de toutes les informations confidentielles des entreprises. Cette directive équilibre des libertés fondamentales en tension en identifiant des actes licites et des actes illicites relatifs à l’obtention, l’utilisation et la divulgation des secrets d’affaires. La directive comprend impose aussi des mesures et des procédures permettant de combattre les atteintes aux secrets d’affaires et dans le cadre desquelles la confidentialité doit être préservée. La protection des sources journalistiques et des lanceurs d’alerte par Quentin Van Enis, chargé d’enseignement à l’UNamur (CRIDS), chargé de cours invité à l’UCL, avocat au barreau de Bruxelles, membre du Conseil de déontologie journalistique (CDJ) Les secrets se dévoilent rarement d’eux-mêmes. Dans ce contexte, le rôle des journalistes et des lanceurs d’alerte est essentiel pour assurer l’information des citoyens sur des questions qui peuvent les concerner au plus haut point. La présente contribution vise à faire la lumière sur le droit des journalistes à la confidentialité de leurs sources d’information et sur la protection des lanceurs d’alerte lorsque ces derniers décident de révéler publiquement les manquements qu’ils dénoncent. Un ouvrage écrit par des professionnels, pour des professionnels. À PROPOS DES ÉDITIONS ANTHEMIS Anthemis est une maison d’édition spécialisée dans l’édition professionnelle, soucieuse de mettre à la disposition du plus grand nombre de praticiens des ouvrages de qualité. Elle s’adresse à tous les professionnels qui ont besoin d’une information fiable en droit, en économie ou en médecine.

"This work focuses on what is protectable as a trade secret, litigating trade secret actions, plaintiff's and defendant's perspectives, corporate trade secret protection plans and practices, hiring and terminating employees, criminal prosecution of trade secret misappropriation"--Provided by publisher.

Despite the economic relevance of trade secrets, their legal protection is not based on a robust theoretical corpus, and a large uncertainty remains regarding how they should be legally apprehended. The present book investigates the foundations of their legal protection by assessing its justifications and aims to define how this legal apprehension should be organized. The book starts with a comparative analysis of the US and the EU legal frameworks. It demonstrates the parentship existing between the two systems of protection and highlights that the incremental structuring of trade secrets protection has led to legal systems lacking broad-based conceptual foundations. In both legal orders, trade secrets rely on blurred protection, formally anchored in unfair competition, the strength of which, however, comes closer to that offered by intellectual property law. In this convoluted architecture, the judiciary is required to play a decisive role, especially at the enforcement stage. However, the absence of clarity concerning the telos of trade secrets protection leads to legal uncertainty, potentially incoherent enforcement, and, all in all, to inefficient outcomes from a welfare perspective. The book then explores a theoretical framework based on a distinction between two legal objects: the undertakings’ secret sphere and secret pieces of information. Securing the undertakings’ secret sphere appears as a condition for the competition process to happen in an economy working under structural uncertainty. It requires objective regulations enforced by public authorities. On the other hand, the legal apprehension of secret pieces of information should be considered as falling within the realm of immaterial goods regulation aiming to solve the deficit of marketability of this type of good. This might call – after conducting a careful policy trade-off – for the establishment of relative (i.e. inter partes) subjective rights.

This publication provides an unparalleled comparative analysis of two "hot topics" in the field of antitrust and unfair competition law with regard to a number of key countries. The first part of the book examines the prohibition of abuse of a dominant position and globalization in relation to two broad questions: first, whether there is consistency between the approaches of different jurisdictions to the notion of abuse, and, second, whether there are too many restrictions on legal rights and business opportunities resulting from the prohibition of abuse of dominance. The international report drafted by Professor Pinar Akman reveals that there are as many similarities as differences between the approaches of the twenty-one jurisdictions studied and presented in this book. This is an invitation to read the excellent international report as well as the reports on specific jurisdictions in order to grasp the variety of arguments and approaches of this antitrust area, which may, on the surface, appear alike. The second part gathers contributions on the question of protection and disclosure of trade secrets and know-how from various jurisdictions. The need for adequate protection of trade secrets has increased due to digitalization and the ease with which large volumes of misappropriated information can be reproduced. The comprehensive international report, prepared by Henrik Bengtsson, brings together these reflections by comparing various national positions. The book also discusses the resolutions passed by the General Assembly of the International League of Competition Law (LIDC) following a debate on each of these topics, and includes proposed solutions and recommendations.

This Handbook provides a scholarly and comprehensive account of the multiple converging challenges that digital technologies present for intellectual property (IP) rights, from the perspectives of international, EU and US law. Despite the fast-moving nature of digital technology, this Handbook provides profound reflections on the underlying normative legal dilemmas, identifying future problems and suggesting how digital IP issues should be dealt with in the future.

About this book: Copyright Reconstructed is the result of a collaborative research project, ‘Reconstructing Rights’ funded by Microsoft Europe, that normatively examined the core economic rights protected under EU copyright law, with the aim of realigning these rights with economic and technological realities. It follows an interdisciplinary approach, combining economic and legal methods. The book presents various concurring future models of ‘reconstructed’ copyright law. The historical evolution of copyright has led to a growing disconnect between the legal definitions of economic rights and the business and technological realities they regulate, eroding copyright’s normative content and distorting the scope of its economic rights. What’s in this book: This book is structured as follows. Following a historical chapter that illustrates how a structure of media-specific economic rights has developed in international copyright law as copyright’s catalogue of rights, a number of alternative models for reconstructing rights are presented in the form of chapters by Europe’s most respected copyright scholars and economists focusing on potentially copyright-relevant acts that lie at the borders of exclusive rights: digital resale;private copying;hyperlinking and embedding;cable retransmission; andtext and data mining. How this will help you: Offering the most incisive current thinking on copyright’s economic rights in an increasingly networked world where acts of usage of works occur on a global or regional scale rather than on a purely national territorial basis, this book will be of immeasurable value not only to academics but also to practitioners and professionals in intellectual property law. This book guides copyright lawyers and scholars in the fields of international and EU copyright law in understanding the nexus between copyright law and technological and economic change. It also helps lawmakers and judges at the European, national and international levels formulate legislative responses to the challenges of the digital environment.

Cet ouvrage rassemble les contributions consacrées au droit d’auteur à l’ère du numérique et présentées lors de la Journée de Droit de la Propriété Intellectuelle (www.jdpi.ch) organisée le 22 février 2017 à l’Université de Genève. Ces contributions sont: Blocage de sites web en droit suisse : des injonctions civiles et administratives de blocage au séquestre pénal (Yaniv Benhamou) ; Website Blocking Injunctions-a decade of development (Jo Oliver/Elena Blobel) ; Le marché numérique européen : enseignements de la jurisprudence de la Cour de justice et perspectives règlementaires (Jean-Michel Bruguière) ; User-generated Content and Other Digital Copyright Challenges: A North American Perspective (Ysolde Gendreau) ; Copyright in the Digital Age: A view from Asia (Wenwei Guan) ; Deep Copyright: Up - and Downstream Questions Related to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) (Daniel Schoenberger).