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Old 03-12-2011, 06:41 AM   #32
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Sorry, but they ARE a matter of law, as you yourself say: contract law. A publisher can't simply ignore the contracts they've signed with their authors.
I don't think you misunderstood what I was saying.
One is statute (or common), one is contract.
The publisher and author can agree, at any point, to change their contract. They cannot agree to change a statute. So lobbying may actually be able to change one, but has no plausible chance of changing the other.
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