Contract Law?

Question by Victoria A: Contract Law?
I recently got involved with the development of an online game (a bunch of teenagers trying to start a business over the internet really) and it was all very informal, they wanted me to be a creative writer and I said yes through email and that was it really.

They provided with me with a Non-Disclosure Agreement which was obviously just copied from sections of other agreements/templates online and I signed by just writing my name in Word.

There was no contract of employment, just an NDA and this was a non-paid ‘job’.

I recently left and I am concerned that they are going to use all my work with no acknowledgement. In terms of copyright and employment law, isn’t that work technically my property as I was not legally an employee with them? As the NDA referred to you as an “employee”. Thanks.

Best answer:

Answer by rhsaunders
Firstly, the NDA is valid, even without a paper signature; the Electronic Signatures Act covers it. Secondly, it has nothing to do with the property rights involved in your product, which rights, had you been concerned with them, should have been covered in an employment contract. I don’t think that you have a claim here.

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