Contract, Clause 4

Continuing the typing of a long contract from Ballantine/Random House. This is clause 4, and only clause 4, because it's so damn long. There's not much to say here. There are a couple of clauses that were struck out after the initial phone call mentioned a ways down. Usually, this would be done by an agent's assistant and the publisher's legal department, rather than by an agent and editor. If you were doing this yourself, it would be you -- but I'm not sure if you'd be bounced to the publisher's legal department, or if poor HE would be forced to field these and pass them on. They all have to be ironed out, demonstrably, before you get the contracts to sign.
( less anecdote in this one; more boring. You know the drill. )