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Originally Posted by HarryT
I did indeed read that, but it's not relevent here. Where Mr. Ark's book fell down is the issue of "fair use". A "reference guide" written by a third party has to contain a significant level of original "creativity"; Mr. Ark's was (apparently) virtually nothing more than material copied verbatem from Ms. Rowling's work, and therefore not "fair use".
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Actually, the website, which is what Mr Ark has control over, contains a lot more original content than the book was going to. It was the publishers decision to strip out virtually all of the original content in order to make the book shorter. I think that's where they really ran into trouble.