Thoughts After Reading Articles on Copyright

In the article MP3s Are Not the Devil by Orson Scott, he talked about how there were very few people who refused to sign work for hire contracts given to them by companies. Companies use these contracts to short change the people that come up with the creative ideas and take most of the profit for themselves. As I read this, I couldn't help but wonder why the majority of people so freely hand over the rights to their creative work. Perhaps the majority of people fear that if they don't sign every contract that a company puts in front of them, they will not be able to find work. Maybe some people are just too lazy or busy to invest the time to carefully read the contracts. Whatever the case may be, I feel that more people need to be stubborn about maintaining the rights to their creative work. Creative people should to be rewarded for their ideas instead of the people that took their ideas through a contract.