Articles on non-disclosure agreements in publishing and ghostwriting: confidentiality and what an NDA covers.
Interviewing your ghostwriter before you sign is not a formality; it is the single step that decides whether you get a great book or an expensive disappointment. I offer a free consultation to every prospect, as good ghostwriters do. Here are the questions that separate the professionals from the amateurs.
Memoir, business book, or exposé, if your manuscript touches your time at a former employer, you have to reckon with NDAs, non-disparagement clauses, trade secrets, and defamation. Here is what your old NDA actually restricts, what non-disparagement really prevents, what counts as protected opinion, and how to write honestly about a former company without getting sued.
Ghostwriting has always been legal; no country prohibits one person writing what another signs. The interesting question is the ethical one, and that gets answered in the agreement. Here is how contracts, copyright transfer, and professional standards protect both parties when a book changes hands.
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