DISCLAIMER: In no way am I qualified to offer legal advice. Never listen to me when it comes to legal advice.
Today, I had a writer ask me which of two contracts was more "industry standard" and appropriate. While I see how he arrived at his question, that's absolutely not the way to make legal decisions.
Look people, contracts are tools. They are merely the means to an end, and have no intrinsic value in and of themselves. Treating the words of a contract like they carry more weight than your actual plans - that directly and utterly defeats the purpose of having a contract in the first place!
You're going to build some weird kind of house, because you don't have the right hammer to build the house you want?
In that regard, contracts are like screenplays. If the movie that's on the page doesn't help the movie getting made, for whatever reason, it needs to be changed - no matter how cool or well-composed the words might be.
Your actions should never have to bend to accommodate the terms of your contract. Instead, your contracts should be enabling and protecting your course of action. Write the contract you want, and sign that.
Don't commit to some contract you found on the internet because you think it's more "secure". Please.
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