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Confidentiality Section 4 Janice has been working on a summer project. The project has been funded by an industrial sponsor – Inventive Concepts plc. At the beginning of the project Janice was asked to sign an acknowledgement to say that she understood and agreed to comply with the terms of the R&D Agreement between the university and Inventive Concepts plc. She signed. One of the terms contained in the R&D Agreement stated that any information generated during the project must be kept strictly confidential and not disclosed to anyone else who was not directly involved in the project. Janice must therefore keep the relevant information confidential. Chris has a consultancy contract with Security Finance Limited relating to work on cryptography. The consultancy contract contains a confidentiality clause. Chris needs to be careful not to disclose any of the confidential information which Security Finance Limited supplies, when carrying out other work. Alex has been able to read a thesis from Alex's university which is subject to restricted access because of a confidentiality agreement with Future Research Ltd. Alex wants to use some of the information from it as part of some other research. If Alex wants to publish the results of the new research and this includes information from the restricted access thesis, Alex will need consent from Future Research Ltd. If Alex quotes from the thesis, consent from the owner of the copyright in the thesis may also be needed. Undoubtedly, there will be situations where disclosure cannot be avoided. In these circumstances you will want to ensure that the person to whom you disclose the information not only keeps it secret but also does not use it improperly. If you show someone confidential information for one project, your agreement should stop them using the information for another project. 25