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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. Re:Weezer getting screwed [ot] by kin_korn_karn · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    in other news, jimi hendrix is dead.

  2. Article is TWO YEARS OLD! by Seth+Finkelstein · · Score: 2, Offtopic
    Look at the date at the top of the article - Feb 3, 2000. That's not a misprint, it's been referenced elsewhere

    Grumble, grumble - To Michael Sims: I know it's an interesting article, and it's not censorship that all my recent anticensorware reports, as well as Jonathan Wallace's research have been rejected, maybe because of What Happened To The Censorware Project (censorware.org)

    But isn't it just a little absurd to be reposting two-year old editorials as "News", while good research ends up trashed suspiciously because of grudges?