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Originally Posted by fjtorres
It's all a matter of leverage and desperation; industry newcomers are offered contracts that barely let them control the spelling of their name, whereas established authors can conceivably retain control of ebook rights, derivative rights, and even specify hard end dates for the contract.
A lot depends on whether the author has an ip lawyer on their side or a rubber-stamp agent and whether they are willing to walk away from a bad contract.
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That is perfectly true, but my point still stands, that it has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with copyright law.