QUESTION
Must I sign legal documents from my client''s business deal (unrelated to me)?
Asked on Jun 13th, 2012 on Business Law - Indiana
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I am a freelance graphic designer.
1) I designed and delivered a logo to a client.
2) Months later, my client plans to go onto a show to talk about their product.
3) I discover this when I get an email from the producer (in another state) with a 5-page NDA and two art release forms.
4) The info they sent was unsolicited but they request that I sign the NDA after the fact that I saw the info in my email box.
5) I cannot make sense of the legalese within these docs.
6) I am very hesitant to sign these as I am what I would consider an uninvolved third party.
7) I have signed over all rights of the logo to the client and don''t care how they use their intellectual property
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As a general matter, you have no duty to sign such documents. However, you should consider that it may prejudice your client if you decline to sign. If this is a client with whom we might wish to do business again, wouldn't the good-customer-service response be to go back to the client, say you wish to cooperate, but will need to be represented by counsel at their expense in order to do so?
Answered on Jun 13th, 2012 at 4:11 PM