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by pjc50 12 days ago
One who understands the power of nondisclosure agreements.

You might find it surprising that an executive signed a long-lasting non-disparagement agreement, but obviously they wouldn't have got the job otherwise. These are a very real problem. Especially the use of NDAs to cover up gross misconduct.

(a particularly egregious example: Neil Gaiman!)

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I understand that, but the book is out already.
We could do with establishing whether that's covered by the injunction; the article also says that _Hay_ stopped selling it for the same reason.

People are probably too young to remember the "Spycatcher" fiasco: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spycatcher

hopefully folks won't share copies of this book online or anything! that would suck!
I still can order this book where I live though.
> One who understands the power of nondisclosure agreements.

Why would a judge pre-decide that any possible word or nod from the author would break an agreement, and consider that valid enough to remove someone's freedom of speech?