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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
I see no reason to side with either party in this dispute. I'm siding with the contract, no matter what it says -- because that is what all parties ought to abide by.
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I agree with you, but the reason there's a court case is there's a dispute about what the words in the contract actually mean.
Since we do not (yet) have the full wording of the contract, and you and I appear to have different interpretations on what the words in the contract actually are, we naturally do not agree on what they mean.
So, let's go with hypothetical wording. If the essential wording of the contract written in 1971 was:
- Author grants publisher exclusive rights to publish the work in book form.
- Publisher may not license the work through "computer, computer-stored, mechanical or other electronic means now known or hereafter invented" without the authors consent.
do you think that would give the publisher exclusive rights to publish the work as an ebook?