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Originally Posted by DNSB
The quote originally posted by Tex2002ans, probably explains that with the quote from a Carnegie Mellon PDF: Other publishers operate under the opposite assumption that if a right is not explicitly denied, then they do have that right . Under that theory, if the original contract did not mention the rights to ebooks as reverting to the author, they remained with the publisher even if no mention of ebook rights was made in the original contract.
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This is actually covered by contract law, rather than copyright law. It all depends on what the contract says, i.e. how broad the wordage is. It tends to be decided on a case by case basis.