The naïveté . . .
Here’s danah boyd complaining about routine contracts:
http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2007/10/02/read_those_cont.html
It sounds like the contract is for a board member. Of course she shouldn’t be providing services directly related to the company’s offering! Sheesh. If she’s an expert on everything, then I suppose it would be a style-crimper.
If it’s really too close to home, she shouldn’t be on that board, because then the company is competing with her; she should be protecting her own intellectual assets. Perhaps in the spirit of openness she doesn’t want to protect her ideas, but in that case it hardly matters what she signs.
Just cross out the offending lines. That’s what you do. She also complains about the contract offerer not providing legal counsel. Duh. Would you ever trust the person who wrote the contract to tell you where you might be getting bitten?
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