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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
They can, but in that type of instance both parties would need to explicitly agree to the changes.
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I'm not suggesting the contract was changed unilaterally (though some contracts do allow that) just that the electronic rights clause might've been tacked on more recently, openly and legally, or sneakily. After all, there is no guarantee the *original* 1971 version included the electronic rights. (It is in fact very unlikely.)
A lot of the discussion seems to be focusing on the idea that the rights were agreed to in 1971, and what such an ancient clause might have been intended for *then*, but I'm wondering if they were tacked on in the past decade or so, and actually aimed at ebooks.