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Isn’t it rather about the Woody Allen contract?

• munificent 7y ago
  This raises an interesting question as to whether authors should be able to have "publisher morals clauses" in book contracts. If an author feels that their publisher is demonstrating moral turpitude (by for example, publishing Woody Allen's memoir), in a way that will harm sales of the author's book, should the author be able to get out of the contract? At the very least, I think the author's guild has a strong claim that asymmetric morals clauses are bad. A publisher shouldn't be able to hold authors to a standard that they themselves are not beholden too.
• nmstoker 7y ago
  Yes, I suspect that brought it to the fore. Of course I'm sure if you looked over the back catalog of many publishers you'd see a huge number of (successful) books with highly questionable authors and they didn't mind publishing those. Howard Marks and "Mad" Frankie Fraser spring to mind.