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RosettaBooks 'Wins' e-Book Case with Settlement (#781)
Posted: 12/5/2002; 11:35 AM by Terry Frazier
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Controversial e-book publisher RosettaBooks has settled it's long-running suit with Random House over who owns the e-book rights to previously published works. RosettaBooks secured its rights directly from authors, who claimed that earlier contracts with Random House, which made no explicit mention of e-book or digital publishing, did not cover RosettaBooks work. Random House disagreed.

Lawsuit Over E-Books Settled. Washington Post Dec 5 2002 2:08AM ET
[...] RosettaBooks began issuing the e-books in early 2001 and was quickly sued by Random House, the world's largest English-language trade publisher.
But a federal judge rejected the request for a preliminary injunction. U.S. District Judge Sidney H. Stein ruled that the publisher was "not likely to succeed on the merits of its copyright infringement claim and cannot demonstrate irreparable harm."
Last March, an appeals court reaffirmed that decision.
Under the agreement reached today, Random House will grant Rosetta exclusive e-book rights to "mutually agreed-upon titles," both old and recently published. Random House Inc. authors include Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, John Grisham, Anne Rice and Donna Tartt. [...] [Moreover - Book publishing news]

But I'm left wondering just how Random House granted exclusive e-book rights when it failed to prove in court it owns such rights. I suspect this isn't over, but the total dollars involved have turned out to be so small it just isn't worth fighting anymore.

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