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Rowling Sues Harry Potter Lexicon
Snape kills Trinity with Rosebud writes "Apparently famous authors don't like it if you try to make a buck using their imaginary property because J.K. Rowling is suing the publishers of the Harry Potter Lexicon for infringement. This should prove an interesting test case for fair use given that the lexicon contains mostly factual information about the series, not copies of the books' text. Of course, both sides seem a bit touchy about imaginary property rights, with Rowling's lawyers being miffed after being told to print it themselves when they asked for a paper copy of the lexicon's website, and the lexicon website itself using one of those insipid right click disabling scripts."
Well - she seems to have ran out of stuff to write about Harry Potter so I guess her creative abilities have came and gone leaving her with only a few billion dollars to show for it. Time to start getting sue crazy over IP. Evidently she doesn't realize how much like Voldemort SCO was and how like Harry Potter Linux is. She is on the wrong side. Never thought she'd become a Death Eater.
At what price learning? At what cost wisdom? The price is a man's peace of mind, and the cost is his life.
This will probably keep them busy for a while!
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the lexicon contains mostly factual information
And all this time I thought it was a work of fiction. You mean magic is real!?!?
There's a reason:
A journalist has a publisher standing behind them who can afford to buy lawyers.
A professor has a university with a law faculty standing behind them which makes lawyers.
A Harry Potter junkie has their significant other standing behind them wondering why on earth they spend their time writing all that stuff.
Fail!!
:P
Like most present, you have never brought both subject and comment together...
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because you need to get out more?? :D
It's one of those internet rules. The party with the right-click disabling script is always wrong no matter what. No exceptions. Kill it with fire.
I'll pay you with an imaginary 0+4i dollars for your imaginary property.
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Simple. Re-title the book "The Lexicon of the Godless World of the Evil Harry Potter and his Stupid Friends". Presto! Suddenly it's satire and protected speech.
All discussion here about how much right an author/imaginer has to "protect" their property, I suspect a lot of this is ego. Ms. Rowling is probably very protective of her work because she thinks she's the greatest writer since Charles Dickens.
.plan and saying, "Oh John, if only you had to work on my XML-driven timesheet application..."
See following quote: "In February 2007 Rowling issued a statement on her website about finishing the final book, in which she compared her mixed feelings of "mourning" and "incredible sense of achievement" to those expressed by Charles Dickens in the preface of the 1850 edition of David Copperfield, "a two-years' imaginative task." "To which," she added, "I can only sigh, try seventeen years, Charles...""
I mean, wow. That's like me reading John Carmack's
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