As freelance workers we don't get health or retirement benefits like full-time employees do. Our copyright & the ability to re-sell work we created over our lifetime is our only benefits package.
Essentially- this is why that job was a $15k+ job:
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Forfeiting copyright is forfeiting all future revenue on the work you’ve created. Quite often to a company that won’t even use the work enough to necessitate needing full copyright. That's revenue you could've used to pay for healthcare, vacations, & retirement savings. 5/