Oh what the FUCK The outlet sent me a contract and it was a blanket work-for-hire agreement that would take away all my rights to the writing and research IN PERPETUITY for EVERYTHING I write for them ever Luckily I have an agent who caught it, but most freelancers don’t!! THIS FUCKING INDUSTRY!!

they are actual scumsuckers what the fuck

These outlets have a bottomless checkbook for executive salaries but when it comes to the actual content they need to exist it’s selling months of work for peanuts and Faustian small print

What the hell?!?!?!

Ah fuck, I’m so sorry D:

I wish for everyone who needs one to have an agent like yours

Christ

This was, of course, after I specifically told my editor I did NOT want a work-for-hire contract They told me that would be fine, they could carve out an exception And then my agency gets the document and boom I’m only getting paid $1,000 for this article! They wanna buy everything for a grand!!

Wow. The Holy Grail of bad contracts

Fucking arseholes.