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CommanderROR · 05-02-2008, 08:45 AM

I can't say what exactly the legal situation is here, but I think it is ridiculous to sue somebody for creating a Lexicon...come on...in my opinion this is not stealing adn won't hurt the HP bnooks at all, if anything it will increase sales because there will be one more book on the market that carries Harry Potter in it's name, thus increasing the chance of somebody actually going out and buying the original 7 books.
If somebody had written a story that get's pretty close to her own, uses some of the names from her books or has other suspicious similarities I would support her POV, but a lexicon is completely different, at least imho...

If I understood this correctly, this is not about somebody stealing ideas or copying a tale but of creating an "Index" of the Harry Potter books for people to look up facts...
There is only one reason why I could imagine anyone going against that, and that is because that person wanted to write such an index themselves and sell it and now sees danger for the profits of that endeavour...so let's just say it out loud.-..the motif is...GREED!!!

JK Rowling started from nothing and wrote some good books (the last two were rather weak in my opinion, but that is a different matter entirely). She earned a fortune (good for her) and then somehow can't cope with all the fame, starting to lash out at people because of "copyright infringements" where there probably are none and also the whole ebook thing...not the last bit of strangeness surrounding Mrs. Rowling...I think it is about time she pulled out of the whole writing business, took her millions and ived happily ever after as a wife and mother somewhere...would be better for all involved, because the way I see it, this is all going to end in tears.
I've read a lot of fantasy, and I could probably find a few dozen "Copyright and Trademark infringements" commited by Mrs. Rowling...it's all a matter of looking at it the right way...and that's just in the books I've read so far, everybody knows how many Fantasy Novels are available out there...

05-02-2008, 08:45 AM	#18
CommanderROR eink fanatic Posts: 2,022 Karma: 4924 Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Germany Device: STAReBOOK, iRex Iliad, Sony 505, Kindle 2	I can't say what exactly the legal situation is here, but I think it is ridiculous to sue somebody for creating a Lexicon...come on...in my opinion this is not stealing adn won't hurt the HP bnooks at all, if anything it will increase sales because there will be one more book on the market that carries Harry Potter in it's name, thus increasing the chance of somebody actually going out and buying the original 7 books. If somebody had written a story that get's pretty close to her own, uses some of the names from her books or has other suspicious similarities I would support her POV, but a lexicon is completely different, at least imho... If I understood this correctly, this is not about somebody stealing ideas or copying a tale but of creating an "Index" of the Harry Potter books for people to look up facts... There is only one reason why I could imagine anyone going against that, and that is because that person wanted to write such an index themselves and sell it and now sees danger for the profits of that endeavour...so let's just say it out loud.-..the motif is...GREED!!! JK Rowling started from nothing and wrote some good books (the last two were rather weak in my opinion, but that is a different matter entirely). She earned a fortune (good for her) and then somehow can't cope with all the fame, starting to lash out at people because of "copyright infringements" where there probably are none and also the whole ebook thing...not the last bit of strangeness surrounding Mrs. Rowling...I think it is about time she pulled out of the whole writing business, took her millions and ived happily ever after as a wife and mother somewhere...would be better for all involved, because the way I see it, this is all going to end in tears. I've read a lot of fantasy, and I could probably find a few dozen "Copyright and Trademark infringements" commited by Mrs. Rowling...it's all a matter of looking at it the right way...and that's just in the books I've read so far, everybody knows how many Fantasy Novels are available out there...