I agree that's very sloppy, but Ascendence Capital isn't CME. I will let the appropriate parties know about the site. Thanks for pointing it out. Shane
Wait... WTF?
"sloppy"?
You were talking illegal? And if Ascendence Capital isn't CME then there is your illegal!
The obvious question is "Who is Ascendence Capital and how did they get hold of a confidential document?"
The next one is "Did they break any laws posting a document belonging to another company on the internet?" (Duh! Yes. But you gotta ask!)
The next one is "Who exactly gets sued / prosecuted here?"
Even as an employee (or Director) you are breaching confidentiality agreements if you post stuff belonging to your employer (or Company) without your employer's permission.
So, either this is part of CME and someone is very stupid OR laws have been broken? Which?
1) There is nothing ILLEGAL about posting a companies internal documents unless those documents were illictly obtained or the poster has reason to believe they were illicitly obtained. Publishing another authors work for your own profit might be a Copyright violation.... but Copyright law generaly has Fair Use exceptions for reporting and discussion of "items of public interest"..... reporting on an old business plan is hardly the same as publishing a pirated copy of "Gone with The Wind"
Trademark law would only apply if the posting entity was attempting to conflate it's identity of the owner of the Trademark.
2) There COULD be a Breach of Contract....if the parties involved signed an agreement about how they would handle those documents..... However only the parties in question would know if any such agreement was in place..... and most certainly a 3rd party such as Kyrie.... who was not party to any such agreement would not be obliged to be bound by it.
In any case.... that would all be civil not criminal matters.
3) Companies always try to claim that their information has far more legal protections then it actualy does. Generaly speaking unless you signed an agreement with a company, obtained the information illicitly or are trying to use such information in a fraudulent manner.................. restrictions on what you do with that information apply only in very limited and special circumstances.
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Wait... WTF?
"sloppy"?
You were talking illegal? And if Ascendence Capital isn't CME then there is your illegal!
The obvious question is "Who is Ascendence Capital and how did they get hold of a confidential document?"
The next one is "Did they break any laws posting a document belonging to another company on the internet?" (Duh! Yes. But you gotta ask!)
The next one is "Who exactly gets sued / prosecuted here?"
Even as an employee (or Director) you are breaching confidentiality agreements if you post stuff belonging to your employer (or Company) without your employer's permission.
So, either this is part of CME and someone is very stupid OR laws have been broken? Which?
1) There is nothing ILLEGAL about posting a companies internal documents unless those documents were illictly obtained or the poster has reason to believe they were illicitly obtained. Publishing another authors work for your own profit might be a Copyright violation.... but Copyright law generaly has Fair Use exceptions for reporting and discussion of "items of public interest"..... reporting on an old business plan is hardly the same as publishing a pirated copy of "Gone with The Wind"
Trademark law would only apply if the posting entity was attempting to conflate it's identity of the owner of the Trademark.
2) There COULD be a Breach of Contract....if the parties involved signed an agreement about how they would handle those documents..... However only the parties in question would know if any such agreement was in place..... and most certainly a 3rd party such as Kyrie.... who was not party to any such agreement would not be obliged to be bound by it.
In any case.... that would all be civil not criminal matters.
3) Companies always try to claim that their information has far more legal protections then it actualy does. Generaly speaking unless you signed an agreement with a company, obtained the information illicitly or are trying to use such information in a fraudulent manner.................. restrictions on what you do with that information apply only in very limited and special circumstances.