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You're making the assumption that they didn't.
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If Open Road is getting sued, I'd say
someone strongly believes they didn't.
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Now maybe the author was mistaken when she said yes....
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Gottlieb saying "I've seen the Open Road agreement" doesn't prove anything in either direction.
Either Open Road did its due diligence and has a valid defense; or didn't and acted in a high-handed fashion.
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If anything, among the less desperate authors, it's probably going to severely curtail any such further vague assignation of assumed-future-media-which-might-be-invented "rights"....
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Contracts these days are pretty extensive, and it's up to the author, the author's agent and the author's lawyer(s) to watch their backs. Seriously, there is nothing new about this, and anyone who is going to consider the implications of a contract from a news article rather than from a lawyer needs to hire a better lawyer.