OUP: we want you to affirm that you're just a hack

Steven Shaviro reads the fine print on an OUP contract, and finds he's doing "work-for-hire." This is a sort of perverse M. Jourdain effect: instead of being pleased to find out you've been speaking prose all along, now we find out that presses have always thought us hacks, and are just now being honest about it. 

[UPDATE: be sure to check out the excellent comments below from Dennis Des Chene and Gordon Hull.]