Quote:The case could have an impact on Bizar's other games. All of them originally were released in the late '70s and early '80s, long before electronic publishing rights were anticipated by most publishers. In the 2002 case Random House vs. Rosetta Books, the New York state court of appeals ruled that unless a publishing contract explicitly grants ebook rights to the publisher, those rights are retained by the author. Even a contract that gives a publisher rights "in book form" would not be interpreted to cover ebooks. The court ruled, "[T]he law of New York, which determines the scope of Random House's contracts, has arguably adopted a restrictive view of the kinds of 'new uses' to which an exclusive license may apply when the contracting parties do not expressly provide for coverage of such future forms."

Quote:We have all of our rights back now, except for the right to print physical copies of Original and Revised V&V. We've been in no hurry to take action to force Scott Bizar to stop publishing all V&V material with the exception of those titles, given that he's filed for an appeal, but a lot of people are urging us to move to shut him down immediately. We're exploring all of our options.