Rights Contracts Seek to Control Distribution “Across the Universe” (video)
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Intellectual property rights are complicating and expanding at an unprecedented rate. Now, as reported by the Wall Street Journal, lawyers are writing contracts that require artists to sign over all potential distribution and marketing rights for their work, “across the universe” and “in perpetuity”.
Essentially, such contracts are intended to achieve the impossible goal of predicting all future “new media” emergence, but they have fallen into the logical absurdity of claiming that a corporate entity can control an intellectual or artistic creation’s distribution across the entire known universe, forever.
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