<div dir="ltr">Timely. A friend had a small singing part in a video, and was paid a flat fee with no residuals, etc. Last night he showed my a nearly identical contract they wanted him to sign that basically granted them everything in his life.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 8:42 AM Gabe Goldberg via Ipg-smz <<a href="mailto:ipg-smz@netpress.org">ipg-smz@netpress.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
  

    
  
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    <p>He writes:</p>
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          <p>When I first became an editor, back
            when your ma was wiping strained prunes off your chin,
            newsroom negotiations were simple. Things tended to go like
            this:</p>
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          <p><b>Editor:</b> I’d like you to
            write a 900-word story about figs.</p>
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          <p><b>Freelance writer:</b> Okay.</p>
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          <p><b>Editor: </b>I will pay you $300
            for this story, which you need to complete by next Friday.</p>
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      <p><b>Writer:</b> Those terms are
        acceptable. I will do a good job, consistent with my abilities
        and the time allotted.</p>
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      <p><b>Editor: </b>Don’t be a jackass
        during the editing, okay?</p>
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      <p><b>Writer: </b>No problem. Don’t edit
        it like imbeciles, okay?</p>
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      <p><b>Editor: </b>You got it.</p>
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      <p>(They shake hands.)</p>
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    <p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/gene-weingarten-how-about-i-rewrite-that-contract-for-you-mr-lawyer/2019/11/13/38e304f6-f4db-11e9-8cf0-4cc99f74d127_story.html" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/gene-weingarten-how-about-i-rewrite-that-contract-for-you-mr-lawyer/2019/11/13/38e304f6-f4db-11e9-8cf0-4cc99f74d127_story.html</a></p>
    <p>...that was then.<br>
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    <pre cols="72">-- 
Gabriel Goldberg, Computers and Publishing, Inc.       <a href="mailto:gabe@gabegold.com" target="_blank">gabe@gabegold.com</a>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br>Patrick Corrigan<br>Email: <a href="mailto:phcorrigan@gmail.com" target="_blank">phcorrigan@gmail.com</a><br><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">LinkedIn: </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-h-corrigan-61669422" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-h-corrigan-61669422</a></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Member, Internet Press Guild </span><a href="http://www.netpress.org" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">http://www.netpress.org</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>"For every difficult and complex question there is an answer that is simple, easily understood and wrong."<br>      H.L. Mencken<br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>