This is silly. It would be useful if it said something like “here are clauses that you should understand the implications of very clearly” but that’s about it.
Work for hire clauses are totally normal for certain kinds of work and no sane company is going to want you contributing some relatively inconsequential portion of a creative project unless the contract makes it clear you won’t claim to own it all later.
Same goes for the idea of never signing an exclusive distribution agreement. You would tell someone not to have their book published by a major publisher?
The rest mostly have nuance too. The various forms of non compete and NDA agreements are clearly unethical for entry level workers and would be essential for any high level CEO gig, or principals in a corporate acquisition
Also big companies are conservative, and they don’t care about your demands. If you don’t have a track record and want to do business with big companies you might have to sign some crazy stuff. Your other option is to not get enterprise business, and for the most part it doesn’t really matter it’s fine to sign some stuff and get paid.
Work for hire clauses are totally normal for certain kinds of work and no sane company is going to want you contributing some relatively inconsequential portion of a creative project unless the contract makes it clear you won’t claim to own it all later.
Same goes for the idea of never signing an exclusive distribution agreement. You would tell someone not to have their book published by a major publisher?
The rest mostly have nuance too. The various forms of non compete and NDA agreements are clearly unethical for entry level workers and would be essential for any high level CEO gig, or principals in a corporate acquisition
Also big companies are conservative, and they don’t care about your demands. If you don’t have a track record and want to do business with big companies you might have to sign some crazy stuff. Your other option is to not get enterprise business, and for the most part it doesn’t really matter it’s fine to sign some stuff and get paid.
The answer to this stuff is it depends.