Thread: HarperCollins Sues Open Road Over E-Book Rights
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Old 12-27-2011, 05:34 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
I don't follow that, I'm afraid. If HC already had the rights to publish the book in all formats, why would they require additional permission to publish an eBook?
It's the in the quoted bit about: “stated limitation of paragraph 20” of its contract — that HarperCollins must seek George's consent to license rights in the Work enumerated in that paragraph.

A few paragraphs above in the PW articles, it says: The suit charges that HC’s contract with George, signed in 1971, gives it the right to be the exclusive publisher of Wolves, “in book form,” including via etc.

Which the suit is using to say that while HC may not publish the e-book themselves without getting fresh consent from the author for a new media format, they claim the right to have an exclusive shot at publishing in said new media format should she allow a release in such.
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