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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
The contracts apparently mentioned digital rights, just not specifically "ebooks." the complaint says:
The 1990-2004 standard form publishing agreements provided that the Plaintiffs were to be paid 50% of the net receipts of the "Publisher" from the exercise, sale, or license of digital rights to their works.
I gather that authors who specifically contracted for *ebook* sales are not part of this class. The complaint is that the "Publisher" is Harlequin, the agency with whom they signed the contract, not "whatever subsidiary Harlequin invented to launder money;" they don't get 50% of what Harlequin-main gets from Harlequin-sub. |
Thanks for the reply.
Cannot still grasp the concept. If they signed with harlequin, and Harleqin transferred the rights to a subsiduary or other company would they stilll not get what they signed for?
I know if you buy rights you can sell them. But if the sale of those rights includes payment terms can you just change them willy nilly?
Take mineral rights for example. If the sales contract says that the seller will retain rights to 20% of the moneys derived from these mineral rights, does this dissapear on resale of the property without your agreement? Maybe it does and I am unaware.
And if there is no clause for ebook rights how can they sell the ebook? And if there is a clause of 6-8% you can't sue in this class action. So who can sue?
That is my biggest question.
I have a few more, but if someone could explain this one to me, maybe they wold be answered as well.
Helen