Comments on: Banned From Blog Networks?

By: mikeyaozm

mikeyaozm — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 07:09:26 +0000

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By: Shane

Shane — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 02:33:24 +0000

Vincent,

You’re take is bang on. And typically a non-compete agreement has a duration of 5 years. It doesn’t sound like Duncan wanted out. It sounds like the other guys initiated the shotgun clause in their partnership agreement.

Usually a partner will get squeezed out when they’re not pulling their weight. Or sometimes a couple of partners decide they want a bigger slice of an impending windfall profit – so they stage a coup and force a partner out.

And sometimes there are just differences in the vision and direction that the company should take.

I don’t know any of them to make a judgement call but those are the typical reasons why this kind of thing happens.

By: Vincent

Vincent — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 00:21:48 +0000

I assume when he finished with B5 he was given some type of payout and that would have come with a non-compete clause. A lot of people who sell part or all of a business sign a non-compete to maintain the value of what they are selling. Our local pizza shop changed hands and the outgoing owner signed one. It is a standard business practice.

He might only be restricted from starting a blog network and not from joining one as a blogger. He is certainly not restricted from blogging as he is clearly still blogging.

As to losing a livelihood, usually you sign a non-compete because you are being offered a bundle of money, any theoretical loss of income from the non-compete is more than made up for by the money from the sale.

By: Content Blog

Content Blog — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 23:03:04 +0000

Banned from Blogging Networks…

I’ve been hearing a lot about Duncan Riley, especially ever since he resigned (or was made to resign) from b5media. BloggingPro has a post that says he might be banned from the blogsphere, and there is some legal conditionality due to which Dunca…

By: Erik

Erik — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 20:33:02 +0000

Interesting. I believe legally, now I know this only to be true in the US, but no contract that requires you from disclosing information to a competitor, working for a competitor, or anything like that, can keep you from making a living.

Meaning if that’s what your skills are and thats what your trained for, even though you said in a contract you never would, they can’t legally keep you from it. Blogging that is.

Now I don’t know the technicalities of blog networks, but no one can keep him from blogging. Especially if that’s how he makes a living, not even a contract signed in blood.

So come to the US Duncan, I’d love to have you write for blogtown press:)

It’s common in tech industries to have these type of contracts signed, one biotech doesn’t want you taking their trade secrets to the next biotech startup. But they can’t legally stop you from making a living using the skills in which you make your livlihood.

Someone correct me if I’m wrong but, I believe that’s the facts jack.

By: franky

franky — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 20:08:02 +0000

That is bad, because now I even have to read The Blogging Times to read Duncan regularly outside of his blog.