J.K. Rowling is absolutely right. If you create a Star Trek "reference" work or original novel, you have to get permission from, and pay fees to, Paramount. If you do the same for Star Wars, ditto for George Lucas & Co. Why should it be any different for Harry Potter?
The fact is that the authors of that reference work couldn't make a dime without the labor of J.K. Rowling. (For example, no one would pay for a lexicon to the characters and places in my non-famous head; nor, I suspect, in yours.)
Moreover, if J.K. didn't vigorously defend her copyright, she would eventually lose the legal right to do so. How much money she has doesn't have a single thing to do with it.
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J.K. Rowling is absolutely right. If you create a Star Trek "reference" work or original novel, you have to get permission from, and pay fees to, Paramount. If you do the same for Star Wars, ditto for George Lucas & Co. Why should it be any different for Harry Potter? The fact is that the authors of that reference work couldn't make a dime without the labor of J.K. Rowling. (For example, no one would pay for a lexicon to the characters and places in my non-famous head; nor, I suspect, in yours.) Moreover, if J.K. didn't vigorously defend her copyright, she would eventually lose the legal right to do so. How much money she has doesn't have a single thing to do with it.