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Originally Posted by ratinox
Perhaps, but it's not the government's job to ensure that "you" don't do anything stupid like forfeiting your copyright rights. It's your responsibility as an author or your agent's responsibility as your agent.
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It depends. As you say, it's not the law's responsibility to stop an author from being stupid, but in the UK at least there is a law called the "Unfair Contract Terms Act" which prohibits grossly unfair terms in commercial contracts. A publisher claiming rights in a medium which did not exist at the time that the contract was signed could be considered an unfair contract term, and an author could take legal action under the Act to recover those rights if the publisher refused to engage in that new medium.