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How Does Hollywood Protect Its Power Players? Through Nondisclosure Agreements Like This One From DiCaprio’s Company.

John Bickley

In a timely discussion of one of Hollywood’s key methods for protecting its power players, the Los Angeles Times highlights a particularly eye-opening example of a non-disclosure agreement from Greenhour Corporation, Leonardo DiCaprio’s production company, which appears to require employees to give up any rights to sue the actor or the company for all kinds of offenses, “including harassment, invasion of privacy and infliction of emotional distress.”

The Times obtained a copy of one of Greenhour’s NDAs from a few years ago and found what some legal analysts concluded are very troubling clauses in the agreement. LA Times writer James Rufus Koren sums up what the NDA asked of its signees:

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