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Harry Potter's 'Half Blood Prince' Leaked
darkonc writes "The CBC is reporting that about 15 copies of "Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince" were accidently sold at a 'Great Canadien Superstore' in a suburb of Vancouver BC. The Canadian Distributor, Raincoast Books managed to get
an injunction prohibiting the people who recieved the books from talking about them and demanding that they return the books to Raincoast until Friday. To add a carrot to the stick, raincoast is offering various goodies including a signed bookplate."
Page 31 of that thread: "he admitted to lying."
I'll take the word of someone who is saying someone is a liar over the word of someone who is saying they are telling the truth.
For the record, you're all liars.
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It was just uploaded on http://oink.me.uk/ as a pdf... I could really care less about it though...
...let us say I (A) have an unpublished work, and someone (B) gets hold of a copy of my work, then sells it to a third party (C). While C might have acted in good faith, A can still use the courts to make sure his unpublished work isn't de facto published without consent.
Replace A with Mrs. Rowling, B with the bookstore and C with the lucky buyer. I imagine the bookstore does not have authorization to sell it until the release date, and so the book is in legal terms still considered unpublished. Unpublished works have great protection in copyright law, as they should have.
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No. The submitter of the article is somewhat of a sports fan and has confused the spelling of the Montreal hockey team with the spelling of the national adjective.
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Distributors used to hold shiping books until the release, so store got their copies and could sell them the same day. The problem is shipping problems/delays meant some stores go their copies early and some got theirs late. The stores that got them late lost out on a lot of sales, and stores that got them early quickly sold out. So the solution is the stores enter into a voluntary agreement (if they do not agree the books arent shipped until after the release date) that they recieve it early, so shipping problems/delays can be fixed before release, and they hold the books until the release date. The arrangement benefits the store more then the publisher (the publisher generally makes the same amount of money no matter which particular store sells it) and customers who can depend on their favorite store having it on release day. Of course some people break the agreement through greed or just by accident and the publisher does it's best to minimize the damage. These agreements aren't oppressive schemes by the publishers, they actually benefit everyone. Stores that don't like it can take their chances.
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From the wikipedia:
They didn't join Canada until 1949.
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Nope. Amazon.com posted three of the chapter titles. Chapter Two: "Spinners End" Chapter Six: "Draco's Detour" Chapter Fourteen: "Felix Felicis" This is consistent with the chapter titles posted in GameFAQs.
You can download the .mov file without requiring the browser plugin from :i es/harry_potter_SNL1.mov
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I tried firefox, but that didn't start downloading, so I tried "net transport" and that started downloading it fine. It's 11MB.
In Canada, Raincoast Books has the contract. So I'm not sure the Scholastic covenant applies. Raincoast publishes many books, but they're still fairly small in the publishing world. And Superstore is probably a major account -- it would be risky to refuse to sell any books to them.
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You may want to check your own law. A work is not considered published until it has been published in some form. That it has been printed with the intent to publish is not sufficient. You may also want to read Harper & Row Publishers, Inc. v. The Nation Enters for a ruling by the Supreme court where the Nation obtained a printed copy of Ford's memoairs before release, much like this case.
You may note that a) it is considered unpublished, despite having changed hands because it was not officially published and b) the Supreme courts holds that the "right of first publication" counts extremely strongly against fair use. That means that the people who have recieved the book have no right to quote even small bits. The Nation used 300 to 400 words. So I wouldn't be so cocky if I were you.
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Over in the real world, it's beginning to look like the source of the Valerie Plume leak was Karl Rove.
The UCC only applies to transactions conducted between a business and another business, not a business and an individual.
Dead wrong. The UCC applies, in part i.e., Article 2, to commercial transactions. Some provisions are specifically targeted to merchant-to-merchant transactions, e.g., Section 2-201(2), but typically the provisions apply to party-to-party transactions, where the UCC defines parties as: a person that has engaged in a transaction or made an agreement subject to [the Uniform Commercial Code]. From Sec 1-201.
As for your statement regarding $500, this is also horribly wrong. You are thinking of the statute of frauds, which requires a transaction for an amount or value over $500 to be committed to writing (see 2-201 above). It is designed to prevent fraud when people are contracting for things of large value (whereas transactions with smaller values may be enforced if there is only an oral contract).
Please, google is your friend. The knowledge of law on slashdot is bad enough without comments like that mucking it up more. I'd be less harsh if you had spent the time to do a little research before hitting reply.
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The court should not be in a position of prior restriant (sic).
:-)
That's a difference between US and Canadian courts. Canadian courts have no concerns about imposing publication bans -- most obviously, while US courts hold preliminary criminal hearings in secret in order to avoid tainting the jury pool, Canadian courts allow the public into those hearings but impose a ban on publication of the details.
We just do things a bit differently on this side of the border, that's all.
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I've got some photographs, I'd like to show them to you. Though you don't know the girls You'll recognise the view..
Also, you can't give the book to anyone else, I'm afraid.
From TFA:
I agree with one of the previous posters saying that it'll be pretty hard to enforce the return of the bok, particularly if you paid by cash and in that case you can probably just send the book to whomever but technically, you're in breach of the court order.
Anyway, to me this just sounds like Yet Another Marketing Trick (TM) to artificially hype the anticipation of the book even further.
Injunctions, in my jurisdiction, need a binomial to be issued: fumus bono iuris (the "smoke" of the good right) and periculum in mora (danger in delaying).
In casu, none of those are present.
There is no periculum in mora, because no irreparable damage will come from people discussing the book, or doing anything that would be legal anyway about it (if the book sucks, people will find out soon enough anyway).
There is no fumus bono iuris because third-party bona fide buyers are exempt from problems ocurring upstream in the distribution chain. For the love of $DEITY, if I enter a big bookstore, buy a book and pay with my credit card it's assumed that I thought in good faith that it was legal to buy that book. The first sale doctrine makes it legal any licit use of the book, even if the book was sold to me in breach of contract. And no, the book is not a stolen good. If I had bought the book from the back of a van, then it could be.
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Who died? A major character in the books. Hell, a WHOLE book was about him...and in my opinion the best book so far.
Also, he was nothing like the red shirts in Star Trek that you don't even know the name of or any character at all...just a guy to stand there and get zapped.
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Perhaps you're thinking of the Goblet of Fire, where a minor character was set up and killed in the same book, and it was hard to care. In the Order of the Pheonix, it was in fact an important character that was killed off, one that was in three of the books. My daughter was heartbroken when she read that part.
Thats how the military does it. If PFC. Joe does somthing rediculously stupid he gets some punishment, some NJP or maybe a Courts Martial. Maybe.
1Lt. Jones (his Platoon leader) gets royaly reamed for having allowed PFC. Joe to be so dumb in the first place. He can also be held accountable for whatever PFC. Joe did, with more serious consequences.
Example:
PFC. Joe lies about the muster report to cover for his buddy.
PFC. Joe is found out and gets a week without leave or some such.
1Lt. Jones gets creamed by his Capt. and may loose pay, privileges, or even back to the Courts Martial thing again due to the extremely serious issue of personel accountability.
Its this... AUTHORITY AND RESPONSIBILITY. They are entwined together and cannot be seperated. They cannot be delegated, only assigned. (Disclaimer: rough example. please no links to the UCMJ)
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Shamelessly lifted from somewhere else.
JK Rowling has denied that
who cares about scholastic, they only deal with the US. Personally I pre-ordered mine from amazon.co.uk bc that idiot Arthur Levine insists Americans are schmucks bc he thinks when a kid reads "He was barking mad" they assume its a dog. Well lets see now, Roald Dahl published childrens books. I read them all the time. Lets see, they were kept verbatim (english spellings and geographical based vocabulary)--- and u know what? I still knew what it meant!!!! Holy shit! Good move scholastic for ruining a great book! And JK does regret even allowing them to change the title of the first book. She was scared and im sure she got a huge load of cash to do it too. Though when i was a kid we were a lot smarter than todays kids so maybe it was a good thing they did it?