Publishing deals that keep options you want to keep, and AI training answered explicitly, not by default.
A publishing contract is dense on purpose. The author reads it twice, the publisher reads it every day, and the difference in familiarity is where rights get quietly signed away.
The rise of AI training is turning old boilerplate into new leverage. Rights granted broadly ten years ago now cover uses no one imagined at the time.
Upload the contract and any option or side letter.
Deed reads the clauses in plain language and shows what is unusual, and what is standard but bad.
Counter drafts, side letters and AI carve outs signed and stored with the deal.
Track uses of your work in datasets and translations, and invoice or block when appropriate.