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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. oh god by Luke+SkyTroller · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I hate when that happens.

  2. second post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    yes

  3. second fist by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    second fist is when you fist someone second in quake 3 arena

  4. Cement Publishing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I often find that publishing books about cement just rakes in the dollars. John Note and Eddie Bonus had a conference call with Jemima Sandbag and Tabitha Teacake to find out if they were EEEEEEEEEEEECCCCCCCCCCC enough.

  5. Allo allo allo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The best thing about being in the Metropolitan Police : "Oh sorry sarge, he fell down the stairs." ASP + CS + Local Ethnic Community == Hours of Fun

  6. Fist Sp0rk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Mad props and rimjobs going out to all the dyslexic date-rapers and jew bashers. Fuck me under the liptus tree!

  7. The Futility of Slashdot's Business Model. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic



    J U N K B U S T E R

    Fuck Subscription!

    Just say No to annoying StinkGeek banners and in-line 300x300 pixel "Do YOU have reliable [foo]...? Then you NEED SourceForge(TM) Enterprise 2002!!!... Order today!"-esque ads.


    Let's face it.. VA's going down the shitter like a dingleberry and in two years Taco's going to be either 1) pimping Katy or Hemos to large black men or 2) saying rather unemphatically "would you like fries with that?" Sell off your anime DVD collection now, taco, 'cuz it's the unemployment line for you!

    CmdrTaco: Like, I need a job. pls. thx.
    Middle-aged black social-worker: Oh yeah? well what can you do?
    CmdrTaco: Well, I can sit on my ass all day and watch Cowboy Beebop.. Sometimes I'll hack some perl.
    MBSW: Hmm.. (thinks) I'll file this guy under "limited skill-set"

    Hahahahahahha

  8. Re:Not terribly surprising by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Congradulations! In a fierce competition you have won the Slashdot "duh" award. Display it proudly.

    But that is offtopic for this thread. You say that corporations are out to make a buck like it's a bad thing. You a communist?

  9. Re:Weezer getting screwed [ot] by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    hahah. I hear that; Weezer sucks a DICK. l33t j03, you make me crack up.

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

    in other news, jimi hendrix is dead.

  11. 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?