Thread: Orson Scott Card, "Rowling's hypocrisy is so thick I can hardly breathe"
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Old 05-02-2008, 02:06 PM   #40
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I read Neil Gaiman's comments on this, and it seems to be a potential grey area in copyright law. Does the work in question have enough unique effort in it to qualify as a new work? Certainly, the work to put together the lexicon is not trivial. The question is, is it enough?

I don't begrudge Rowling at all for this, because it is well within her rights. It is her franchise and in her best interests to protect it.

Jason
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