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charcircuit on April 24, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Pushing back against contract demands is scary but...

What are you afraid of by signing it? Even if indefinite NDAs were legal (contracts can't be indefinite) the amount of damage the information you learn during the interview process is most likely not that high. As time goes on that damage will very likely just go to $0.

steelframe on April 25, 2022 [–]

> contracts can't be indefinite

Of course they can. That was the whole premise of the Listerine case.

charcircuit on April 25, 2022 | [–]

With the Listerine case the end of the contact is when they stop selling Listerine.

A royalty fee agreement is pretty different to an NDA.

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