NDA: a non-disclosure agreement. In plain terms, the hiring party has images or text they don’t want a contractor to share with others, so they ask that contractor to sign an NDA.
I’ve seen several people here (writers mostly) who interact with contractors (would-be producers-for-hire) discuss “sending an NDA.” Sometimes it sounds like the NDA is going in the wrong direction— as in, the person with something to protect is actually receiving the NDA. Backwards, right?
Today I had a potential animation contractor request an NDA to look at.
As a person who works under contract often, I would never request an NDA. I want to be free to talk about and share my work publicly. (Sure, I’ll sign to get the job, I’m just saying I would never request such a contract.)
So what I’m wondering is, are people in the industry starting to use the term NDA to just mean a generic contract? Is the definition of the term shifting? Or are these specific people just wet behind the ears and don’t know what they don’t know?
