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When Random House signed publishing contracts in the '60s with such well-known authors as Kurt Vonnegut and William Styron, it included expansive language claiming all rights to publish the works in "book form." To the company's surprise, a federal appeals court recently affirmed a ruling that this language probably did not apply to electronic versions, or e-books. The lower court reasoned that because e-books are made up of changing digital signals sent over the Internet rather than of fixed texts on printed pages, they were not "books" under a traditional definition...
...York Times v. Tasini, in which Keller represented the newspaper and other defendants (including Time Inc., publisher of TIME), the Supreme Court ruled that unless specified in contracts, newspaper and magazine publishers do not automatically own the right to resell freelance contributors' stories to such digital databases as LexisNexis. The publishers have since removed the freelancers' articles from the databases. Keller maintained that such rulings damage the public interest by withholding rights from the parties best positioned to publish works in the new medium...
...CREATE A TRAVELOGUE TrekShare lets you plan and publish information online about your trips. You can build your own website, post photographs, chat within an online community and get tips on traveling...
...slipping away. In Oregon, the Umatilla tribe, whose members told Clark they thought the explorers were "supernatural and came down from the clouds," wants funds for a language-immersion program, as only a handful of tribe members still speak their native language fluently. And the tribe hopes to publish an atlas of its Columbia River homeland with more than 1,000 native place names, long extinct...
...September, Vintage will publish "The Vintage Book of War Fiction," a paperback original edited by Sebastian Faulks and J?rg Hensgen. The book contains an excerpt from "My Favorite War," a novel by TIME senior editor Chris Farley. Also included are some 40 short stories and novel excerpts from writers such as Ernest Hemingway, Norman Mailer and Joseph Heller...