ebook rights in old contracts - Random House claim

Random House and Retroactive E-book Rights?
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Understandably desperate, Random House is trying to claim that older contracts that did not specifically include e-book rights nevertheless also apply to these
http://www.booktrade.info/i.php/24769
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703757404574592542720630598.html
...Random House has sent a letter to literary agents claiming the digital rights to books it published before the emergence of a thriving electronic-book marketplace...
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/13/business/media/13ebooks.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
...potentially puts into play works by authors like Ralph Ellison and John Updike....
http://www.ereads.com/2009/12/random-serves-notice-on-would-be-e.html
...enhanced language that references other forms of copying or displaying the text that might be developed in the future...


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