[MrUmpire]

Originally Posted by Rich Ives

Slow day.

Don't confuse a generic "publish" with the meaning of "publish" in a legal sense.

In legalese, one of the definitions of publish includes:

b: to distribute or offer for distribution to the public copies of (a copyrightable work) by some transfer of ownership, rental, lease, or loan

Note the "transfer of ownership" part. As MLB did not transfer ownership to either SN or Triumph, those companies did not, in the legal sense, "publish" the book. MLB is just protecting their rights when they state that SN did not "publish" the book.

Good luck with this. I had written a similar post and then decided to delete it.