Legal Question in Civil Litigation in New York
Contracts signed under duress
Over the past six months, I have sold two feature
articles to a website based in New York. The website
agreed to pay US$450 for each. After I invoiced it for
US$900, the website demanded that I sign a
non-negotiable contract with its funding organisation.
The contract refers to me as a consultant and states
that I will take assignments from and do work for the
website ''on request'' until the end of 2002. This is
unacceptable, but if I refuse to sign the funding agency
won't pay me for the work previously done. I am in
London, UK, and can't take them to small claims court
in the US. Is it worth trying to sue them for breach of
copyright? Should I sign the contract with the words
''under duress'' added? Should I amend the contract
before sending it back to them? Or should I just
capitulate and hope that they don't enfore their rights?
Or is there something else I can do?
Thanks for your help
1 Answer from Attorneys
Re: Contracts signed under duress
Do you have a contract for the work you have already done, i.e. the work for which you billed them $900? You can seek to enforce that contract. I would be wary of signing anything with the words "under duress."
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