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Allen Varney
@bundleofholding.com

Why do we see this exact same story play out repeatedly? Do companies have no memory? Is learning impossible?

J-T Kelly@j-tkelly.bsky.social

Red Ogre (@ogre.red) gets rights to your work upon *submission*. And those rights are ridiculous. They can change your work, not credit you, use your work for advertising, or put it in an anthology. Don't submit to this one, folks.

Allen Varney
@bundleofholding.com

A platform for creatives gets its clueless legal counsel to draft terms of service that say "We can do anything we want with anything you send us, you can't sue us, and we can come to your house at any time and kick you in the groin."

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Allen Varney
@bundleofholding.com

The company posts the new ToS, everyone flips out, and some hapless frontline minion has to quickly say "nonono, that's not what we meant." The next day they clarify that sure, they can kick you in the groin, but they never actually would.

Allen Varney
@bundleofholding.com

Everyone flips out again. Repeat seven times. A week later the CEO posts on LinkedIn (Well, heh-heh, that didn't go well!"), wholly retracts the ToS, and pledges to rebuild the trust he just burned to the ground for no gain.