Legalish question

Hola,

First-time poster, long-time lurker. I've published several books traditionally and I own the e-rights to them. Rather than have my publisher do the e-publishing, I'm going to do it myself. My question is this:

1) Can I e-publish the books using the paperback covers, or does that cover art (and the cover itself) legally belong to the publisher?

I have two kinds of books, contractually speaking: the publisher continues to hold the traditional (non-e-book) rights on some of the books, but the rights on some other books have all expired and reverted to me.

So do I have to come up with new covers for the e-books?

If any of you have any experience with this, I would be grateful for your pearls of wisdom.

Well, I am chagrined.

Old Hack: thanks. Luckily, there's no such problem in that regard. (And after looking at your profile photo, might I suggest you curb your caffeine intake?).

Others: I suspected as much. For reasons that are too boring to go into, I won't be asking the publisher for the cover rights. I'm going to look at it as an opportunity to come up with some wizz-bang cover stuff.

Thanks again.

Luckily, no non-compete clause. To my (limited) knowledge, I can e-pub wherever or whenever without any restrictions (covers aside).