The NDA's I sign state that I will not share any of the client's design information without prior written approval, hence the asking for written approval. I was just thinking I can't be the only person in this position, and someone must have a standard form for requesting written permission.
I'm sure I have several. From ages ago. Left "Big Corp" to novate "small corp(s)" I carried-with on HDD a TON of forms that had begun in the 60's as binders of commonly needed stuff.
That stuff is still all over the 'net.
BUT....
End of the day, it will be THEIR forms and THEIR legal-eagles as must be kept happy.
So all the "requestor" needs is a decently worded common bizness letter ASKING and explaining
why you ask, and what the exposure is planned to be.. to reduce their natural initial paranoia.
The Fujitsu deal? We wanted to hit the
newspapers with the "win-win" brag as to how the Consultancy (my one..) had arranged a
direct Fujitsu support role (the local distributor was a notorious Charlie-Fox) for a major, and significantly "visible" institution.
Folks at both sides have to assess several angles. They did. We published the article, SCMP, Hong Kong. All were pleased.
Funny part is.. no one TOLD us.. but Fujitsu was about to EXIT that whole line of bizness! And did, soon after!
Just ask.
Appropriate forms will be found or created from prior practice.
Small corp to small corp? NEITHER of you have those things, yet?
Just Google for it!
Books / media copies of DOZENS of standard forms should ALREADY be in the office.
If not so, make it so. They are cheap or even free.
No need to keep reinventing the same admin-language wheel any more that reinvent Bic Biros to sign it.
"Good idea" that someone take at least two SEMESTERS of basic Bizness Law so yah grok which to use and when, annnd what you can/should/must, or should NOT or must NOT ... change to fit the needs.
Night courses are better than days. Always.
You'll be with OTHER mature folks who have real-world experience and real-world needs, not juvenile delinquent air-head teeny-boppers.
Your instructor will likely be a moonlighting real-world bizness person with a Day Job. Not a prof who has NEVER worked a real-world job.
Helps yah know WHEN yah need a lawster.
Helps make the "when" a lot less OFTEN by steering yah away from danger
before a screw-up rather than after, too.
Bizness longevity?
Ever-and-always has been more about NOT stepping on the equivalent of a deadly landmine than about being super-brilliant.. and then.. stepping on a legal landmine!
