The "Rights Grab": The Long-Term Penalty

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Standard industry contracts are designed to extract as much value as possible from a writer, often under the guise of "protection." Agents argue they need these rights to get the best deals, but in reality, they often sit on those rights, doing nothing, while the writer is left unable to pursue their own opportunities. It is a predatory structure that assumes the author is too uninformed to handle their own business. We replace that with autonomy. We want partners, not parasites.