What do you know, TP has put a fresh coat of paint on their crappy contracts by launching yet another "We're gonna make you a star!"  IP  farm.  This time, it's "Manga Pilots," where creators, for a flat fee, create a  24-36 page story But wait, there's more! This contract (which they call a "pact"), is written in twee, simplistic language:

"You’ll notice this doesn’t look like your everyday ordinary contract — the kind filled with double-column microscopic boilerplate and mumbo jumbo written by Hollywood attorneys — but, nonetheless, this is a contract. It’s written in the spirit of 'serious fun'..."

No matter how cute, how hip, how friendly a contract is written, crap is crap. Calling it a "pact" doesn't mean it's not a contract. Legalese has gotten a bad rap as a tool of obfuscation, which is the fault of the people who abuse it. It's a a tool that can also clarify, and a lack of legalese doesn't make a contract friendly to a creator. 
In fact, it makes a contract's terms as hard to interpret and enforce as it is to hold onto melted Jell-O.

But, wait, let me share with you what moral rights are, according to Betsy Rosenblatt, Harvard Law School:

"The term "moral rights" is a translation of the French term "droit moral," and refers...to the ability of authors to control the eventual fate of their works. An author is said to have the "moral right" to control her work. The concept of moral rights thus relies on the connection between an author and her creation.
The scope of a creator's moral rights...may include the creator's right to receive or decline credit for her work, to prevent her work from being altered without her permission, to control who owns the work, to dictate whether and in what way the work is displayed, and/or to receive resale royalties."

Then let me share with you this choice phrase from the Manga Pilot "Pact:"

"“MORAL RIGHTS” AND YOUR CREDIT
“Moral rights” is a fancy term (the French thought it up) that basically has to do with having your name attached to your creation (your credit!) and the right to approve or disapprove certain changes to your creation. Of course, we want you to get credit for your creation, and we want to work with you in case there are changes, but we want to do so under the terms in this pact instead of under fancy French idea. So, in order for us to adapt the Manga Pilot for different media, and to determine how we should include your credit in tough situations, you agree to give up any "moral rights" you might have."

There you have it, folks: Moral Rights are dumb because the French thought of them, so give them up.

That's really all you need to read to know this contract sucks. The surrender of droit moral covers well the one-year exclusive, one more year after the exclusive to allow TP to match offers, and the PERPETUAL (that's forever, tee-hee) non-exclusive rights of TP to publish your work in any form without compensation or credit.
All this for a flat fee, the amount of which is not mentioned in the "pact." There's a nice blank spot for that.

This permutation of  TP's lousy track record with creator's rights is written in talent scout dialect. Read aloud, the terms remind me much of Steve Albini's description of hip young A&R guys in "The Problem with Music:"

"After meeting "their" A & R guy, the band will say to themselves and everyone else, "He's not like a record company guy at all! He's like one of us." And they will be right. That's one of the reasons he was hired.
"...A & R guys...present the band with a letter of intent, or "deal memo," which loosely states some terms...If the label presents them with a contract that the band don't want to sign, all the label has to do is wait. There are a hundred other bands willing to sign the exact same contract."

I am comfortable going on record as saying this is the most childish and disingenuous legal document I have ever read. 

Ce contrat est un morceau de merde. La même merde, jour différent.
There's some French worth learning.