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Originally Posted by ATDrake
Funny you should mention the cars, as it seems that the US has a " lemon law" designed specifically to protect consumers from being shafted too badly by the purchase of egregiously bad cars. And provides consumers with rights that "may exceed the warranties expressed in purchase contracts".
Again, I'm not saying that people shouldn't be able to sign bad deals which end up not benefiting them.
Only that there should be a limit to how long those bad deals can last, and that the truly exploitative ones be able to be invalidated if there is sufficient cause.
There are other consumer protection laws in place to protect people not so much from their own stupidity or ignorance, which you seem to believe to be the trumping contributing factor, but from being so grossly taken advantage of by profoundly negligent and/or outright predatory parties.
Again, I don't see why content creators shouldn't have some limited protection under the law against those latter such, just like other people do. |
Because consumers are not expected to take legal advice before a purchase. (Except in some special situations such as real estate purchases.)
In a contract situation where the author has their own independent legal advice, they do not need the same level of protection. They are assumed to understand the implications of what they are agreeing to. It is the responsibility of their legal advisor to make sure that they do.