Most of the time it just happens because a company is trying to save money and use a template that works fine for most people. Most people don’t have a second

Most of the time it just happens because a company is trying to save money and use a template that works fine for most people. Most people don’t have a second job / blog / business / side hustle / whatever and don’t care if the company owns everything they make. I’ve renegotiated the same clause as in the blog multiple times with no issues. Also had to do the same for a book I wrote taking out of copyright fairy tales and gender swapping them with an algorithm I made. The publishers contract (quite understandably) said the manuscript couldn’t contain any work in the public domain, but the whole concept of the book was to gender swap a text exactly as is, to shine a light on the inequalities in the original. It was a bit of a battle to change it but I think more based on requiring more lawyer time than anyone trying to do anything untoward. Always ask to change it but always be nice about it. They probably aren’t trying to screw you over! (But also don’t let anyone screw your over just because they didn’t mean to!)