I'll bet Oklahoma and Texas wanted not to wait to join the SEC until the expiration of the GOR.
The ACC GOR is in the public realm....and lawyers who review it say the wording is kept very simple...not much to dance around.
....no exit mechanism
....no mention of damages
....no mention of voting
It is a straight assignment of the media rights for a period of time by the schools to the conference.
And media rights, once sold, are difficult to overturn as Paul McCartney found out...
In the US, Sir Paul has been able to reclaim some of his catalog finally...only because US copywrite law allowed an artist to reclaim rights 56 years after they were first copywrited.
“The case stems from Section 304(c) of the Copyright Act of 1976, which created a non-waiveable claw-back right for authors to reclaim their ownership interests in any works assigned by them prior to January 1, 1978. Under that section, an author may reclaim their copyright ownership interest by serving a termination notice on the rightsholder between 56 and 61 years after the copyright registered. For the songs that McCartney wrote for The Beatles’ first studio album in 1962, and which Sony currently owns (after purchasing the copyrights from Michael Jackson’s estate last year for $750 million), that means 2018 is the first year McCartney can begin clawing-back his ownership interests.”