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Old 05-02-2008, 02:29 AM   #4
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Personally I think that Ms. Rowling is 100% in the right, here. Using someone else's characters without their permission - what copyright law calls "creating a derived work" - is unquestionably a breach of copyright. I honestly don't see what Mr. Card is objecting to.
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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