Author here. These are not "work contracts" the way you may be thinking. When we sign with publishers etc we do have agents and lawyers. This was basically in t

Author here. These are not "work contracts" the way you may be thinking. When we sign with publishers etc we do have agents and lawyers. This was basically in the terms of service and was slipped in quietly after not including it for years. It would be like Photoshop quietly adding a clause that they had the rights to use your art in AI. Should every digital artist read the TOS... again and again? Every year? Every month? It's a nice idea to be that informed but not realistic especially with the number of websites we use to do our work. Additionally a lot of times it's the authors who upload not the narrator so technically the narrator did not even agree to even that much.