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Originally Posted by HarryT
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.
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Which is quite different from legislation that renders all such contracts void in part or in total. Most (all?) US states have consumer protection laws which might apply should an author seek to pursue this kind of action.