Like other people have said, you probably need to talk to a lawyer, but one possible avenue is to just cross out the offending passages (initial and date the mo

Like other people have said, you probably need to talk to a lawyer, but one possible avenue is to just cross out the offending passages (initial and date the modifications, get a copy for yourself), then sign and return the contract. If it's important to them and not just boilerplate that they don't care about, they'll come back to you to negotiate. I'm fairly certain you are not responsible for notifying them of changes in the same way that they are not responsible for pointing out the fine print in everything they hand you to sign.