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Originally Posted by crossi
The author should have had a MUCH better agent. Signing away that much of your creative rights is just foolish. For that book he should have insisted on limited rights for a strictly limited time period. I'd like to see publishers losing a lot of their power to insist on contracts like that.
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crossi,
(edited to remove appearance/evidence of carrying on)
My whole point comes to this.
If MGM came up and offered me a Million USD for all rights in perpetuity for my so called "Amazing Story" book, and they were going to make a movie about it, I would be sorely tempted. If they offered 2 Million, screen writing credits, and a contract to write further books (Amazing Story 2, Amazing Story 3, ..., ) with similar payoffs, I would become like warm butter on their lips. Like the fallen heroine in a trashy novel might say, "the company could have its way with me."
The publishers will not lose their power as long as they have money the authors wants. If you personally were able to get some kind of "big brother" overriding law passed limiting contracts, then the money offered would go down proportionally and the authors would "hates you forever."