On: The Beginner’s Guide to Freelance

[mark_l_watson]

Signing contracts after you have carefully read them is another issue. In the last five years, two people have sent me long contracts, and buried near the end, was a statement that I would indemnify the company and investors if they were ever sued for patent violation for whatever I was working on. Do people actually sign stuff like this?

[chrisbennet → mark_l_watson]

I got a contract from a client that would have held me responsible for "estimated loss of profits" !!!

I wrote back quoting the offending paragraph: "Nice try but yeah, no."