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Originally Posted by axel77
I know all that Harry, still it makes an interesting view IMHO when you consider medias. Like online website -> good. Paper -> bad. And as said, IMHO intention what to do with money or no money should be excluded from the judging. Like what if he would offer to lexicon to self cost prices, like the website. Would have it changed something? What if he offfered to donate the gains of his version of the lexicon to the same charity organisation as her... would it changed something for the view of law? IMHO, not.
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apropos, I'd like to make it clear that the Lexicon site
is much more thant the Lexicon book would have been.
There is, off course, all the stuff quoted from the 7 books and the companion books, while Ark on his site accepted to paraphrase and to limit the direct quoting amount when asked to (contrary to what RDR did); but the site profited by the participation and the efforts of many people, plus the fans community, which added a lot of, say, creativity to the contents of the site in the shape of essays, researches, fan arts, pictures, theories, ecc.
All this stuff was not in the book: most of the authors who were asked for an opinion didn't like the idea of their work being commercially exploited.