Anton Konashenok wrote:
Both a vendor agreement and an NDA can tell you what kind of client an agency is. When the agency is imposing upon you a huge, menacingly worded agreement obviously skewed in their favour, you know you are unlikely to get any meaningful work from them even if you sign it. The very best clients have agreements as small as one page. Conversely, sometimes you see a heap of legal mumbo-jumbo that may not even be enforceable or relevant in the given jurisdiction. One European agency recently sent me an NDA obviously written in the US. When I confronted them on that, they had the audacity to claim it was written by a licensed European lawyer. I had to point out that "federal and state legislation", "injunctive relief" and "remedies in equity" don't belong in the continental European law. Apart from that, they stipulated a confidentiality period of twenty years, and in the vendor agreement they explicitly refused to pay invoices submitted more than six months after the job delivery.
Some of these agencies are quite something, aren't they? In all the wrong ways.