Okay, so I am not a lawyer. But there’s this post by Shon Faye (@shonfaye) that’s gone viral. And I thought it’d be a fun experiment to see if I could argue the other side of it. So, yes, I’d be defending Ursula. 1. Ariel being a minor is subjective, and I disagree this makes the contract any more nullable. I would assume that there are no clearly established laws of consent in this medieval world, either on land or sea. But let’s say there are. Ariel’s still old enough to get married and be emancipated from her father. I would argue that if she’s old enough for that to…
-
-
Title-less
District 9 is awesome. I just thought I ought to say that. I would pay serious money to have one of those giant mechs, even if I could only use it to give out ice cream. Now that I’m getting published, I’m being introduced to the wonderful world of rights and contracts. Someone needs to make a pocket-primer on what these things mean. First serial, second serial, sub-license, electronic rights, etc. These terms mean all sorts of things, and they can be interpreted so many different ways. Does electronic mean anything electronic, or just electronic words? It’d be nice if either each magazine could have a standardized checkbox of what…