| NEW YORK, July 11, 2001 -- The publisher Random House suffered a setback in the closely watched Rosetta e-rights case. Federal Judge Sidney Stein denied a Random House request for an injunction to prevent e-publisher Rosetta from issuing works that were first published by Random House. Random argued that its non-compete clause with authors meant that another publisher couldn't re-issue their books, including e-books -- even though nobody anticipated e-books back when the contracts were signed. Judge Stein said it's unreasonable to consider digital books the same as bound paper books. A trail is possible |
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