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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Friadoc" data-source="post: 3468175" data-attributes="member: 5445">Yes, it is obviously good business sense to have a clause that keeps your former customer, which is what a licensee is, from saying anything about your dealings that you didn't approve of first.No person, or company, in their right mind, unless desperate, would sign such an agreement.Most common place you see such clauses, reality shows and employee contracts.It was mutually beneficial business relationship, no one would enter into that with a built in gag-order since it instantly gives too much hold, by either party, over how things are said since they could, intheory, eternally hold a release up by lack of approval.Basically, you could never end business with each other if one side, or the other, doesn't agree to the press release saying it happened.WotC wouldn't have added the clause, nor would Paizo, or anyone with any contract experience, as it removes control over a needed component of severing a relationship - The Announcement.WotC should have either had some presence on-line to do damage control, or released as soon as Paizo released. It is not that hard to release a web page, between my own site, Delver's Square, and my IT experience, it takes a click, especially if the content was pre-approved days, if not weeks ago, which I'm pretty sure the WotC employees' comments were.It was a public fumble, now they're working to make things right.</blockquote>