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Accommodating pointless diversity of NDAs is enabling dysfunction. Have a look at https://waypointnda.com/.

Has this been reviewed by lawyers outside the U.S.? Section 6, the 18 U.S.C. 1833(b) notice seems extremely specific, and I'm worried that there might be other subtleties that make this unusable outside the U.S. and/or other required items for the NDA to function outside the U.S.

(The U.S.-centrism in the software industry has always been a pet peeve of mine.)

Yes. I’m a Canadian lawyer who has corresponded with the author of that NDA. I pointed out the same language and he’s working on a version that’ll account for other countries. The author is keenly aware of this and wants to make it not US-centric.

Howdy, a3camero!

Indeed, we're currently working on a version 2.0.0. The new release will implement a few small, general improvements, and well as feedback from counsel from a few common-law jurisdictions.

beefhash, if you know lawyers from other jurisdictions, please put them in touch with me at kyle@kemitchell.com. I'd love to provide them the latest working draft of 2.0.0 and read their thoughts.

'DocuSign template .zip' link is broken.

Thanks for mentioning! I’ll fix it.

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