JKR vs. RDR
Boy, have I been out of it.
There's an uproar in HPverse on the trial between JKR and publisher RDR concerning the printing of Steve Vander Ark's Harry Potter Lexicon (HPL). And I've only heard about it today.
The Leaky Cauldron's Summary Reports
The Leaky Cauldron's Opinion of an MSNBC Opinion Piece
I've only been on mugglenet.com and the-leaky-cauldron.org and already I find this stuff bat-shit crazy.
I'm scared of the flame wars I might encounter on LJ or IJ.
http://www.citmedialaw.org/blog/2008/rowling-v-rdr-books-harry-potter-lexicon-trial-starts-todayL
Frankly, I don't know what to make of the shit.
Read somewhere, unverified, that JKR stated along the lines of "doing this because A, B, C, etc and that it won't allow publishing of a similar work by JKR". If I was in that position, I wouldn't really care, as long as I could publish my own work later.
Harry Potter Lexicon is excellent, why shouldn't it be published?
If JKR eventually does publish a encyclopedic HP, choosing between one with her name on it and a couple dozen others... well it might just be me, but JKR's might just come out on top.
My other shitty argument is that I never saw HPL as harming JKR's works but as providing in-depth understanding of the HP universe. Data-data. However, I can't really tell, can I? I've not read the damn thing everyone's upset about.
I wonder if JKR read it?
Whatever.
I'm waiting on the judge's call.
And lo! He was born shrewd. His was the path that would lead to copyright law. The gods themselves forever named him The Shrew and painted his body in a constellation of stars.
ETA: seems like it's only "certain content" that's objectionable. Why does it seem to me like there's an acute case pigheadedness? No one heard of the word compromise.
It was the story of poor Steve and Jo. Stuck in the middle of corporate guns and corporate lungs and that other cunning c-word. Stuck there like squealing pigs; who really, really needed a pair of invisble wigs; in which to sigh their distaste and their woe, about such a coming to their foe.
There's an uproar in HPverse on the trial between JKR and publisher RDR concerning the printing of Steve Vander Ark's Harry Potter Lexicon (HPL). And I've only heard about it today.
The Leaky Cauldron's Summary Reports
The Leaky Cauldron's Opinion of an MSNBC Opinion Piece
I've only been on mugglenet.com and the-leaky-cauldron.org and already I find this stuff bat-shit crazy.
I'm scared of the flame wars I might encounter on LJ or IJ.
http://www.citmedialaw.org/blog/2008/rowling-v-rdr-books-harry-potter-lexicon-trial-starts-todayL
Frankly, I don't know what to make of the shit.
Read somewhere, unverified, that JKR stated along the lines of "doing this because A, B, C, etc and that it won't allow publishing of a similar work by JKR". If I was in that position, I wouldn't really care, as long as I could publish my own work later.
Harry Potter Lexicon is excellent, why shouldn't it be published?
If JKR eventually does publish a encyclopedic HP, choosing between one with her name on it and a couple dozen others... well it might just be me, but JKR's might just come out on top.
My other shitty argument is that I never saw HPL as harming JKR's works but as providing in-depth understanding of the HP universe. Data-data. However, I can't really tell, can I? I've not read the damn thing everyone's upset about.
I wonder if JKR read it?
Whatever.
I'm waiting on the judge's call.
And lo! He was born shrewd. His was the path that would lead to copyright law. The gods themselves forever named him The Shrew and painted his body in a constellation of stars.
ETA: seems like it's only "certain content" that's objectionable. Why does it seem to me like there's an acute case pigheadedness? No one heard of the word compromise.
It was the story of poor Steve and Jo. Stuck in the middle of corporate guns and corporate lungs and that other cunning c-word. Stuck there like squealing pigs; who really, really needed a pair of invisble wigs; in which to sigh their distaste and their woe, about such a coming to their foe.