atw: FW: Word templates and confidentiality agreements

Hi guys

 

A bit of a cheeky request, but does anyone have a copy of a confidentiality
agreement they wouldn’t mind letting me see?

 

My problem is to determine how we protect a Word template.  My publishing
company sends out boilerplate templates on which writers develop course
materials.  Sometimes we send out templates and then reject the books
because they are not up to scratch, meaning the person is left with their
book on our template that they could send elsewhere to get published.  We
don’t want them to be able to use the template in any other context.

 

There does not seem to be any way of copyrighting a Word template – the
words in the template are copyrighted, not the template itself.  Something
like a design patent would be overkill and way too slow and costly.  I am
wondering if a possibility to get around this is some kind of commercial in
confidence clause.

 

So I would like to have a look at the wording of a few before I find the
right kind of lawyer to take the problem to.

 

Please reply off-list if you can point me in the right direction.

 

Regards, Christine

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