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Originally Posted by Hadrien
A fan guide is hardly a derivative work. A derivative work would be a fan fiction based on the Harry Potter world (which Ms. Rowling allowed recently).
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Of course it's a derivative work! Copyright law allows
limited quoting from a work for purposes of literary criticism, etc, but this hardly constitutes that.
Besides which, this is
not a "fan guide", distributed free on the internet. It's a commercial publication. This is just a guy who's cynically trying to make money from Ms. Rowling's work.