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When Publishing Contracts Go Bad

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the sign-on-the-dotted-line dept.

drmofe writes: "It's not just recording artists who are getting screwed over royalty payments and publishing rights. MediaChannel has an op-ed piece asserting that standard publisher-author contracts are now so restrictive that they might in fact be "restraint of trade" under the US anti-trust laws."

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  1. Are we really suprised? by jweb · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So, in other words, the publisher does its best to look out for itself, at the expense of the 'little guy' author, who can't afford a multitude of lawyers to protect his/her own interests.

    I would pretend to be shocked, but I'm not.

    So we try and bring anti-trust proceedings against all the book publishers. But then we should also bring anti-trust proceedings against the RIAA (music) and MPAA (movies).

    And we all know how well the DOJ managed the Microsoft anti-trust case.

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