JKR's suit against RDR Books

[pegkerr]

I'm really sorry to hear about all this. I certainly like the Harry Potter Lexicon, and I consider Steve Vander Ark a personal friend; Rob and I worked with him on the HPEF Board of Directors. But geez, if praetorianguard is correct about the sequence of events, then as a holder of copyrights myself, I have to agree with praetorianguard. I don't think that RDR Books or Steve have a legal leg to stand on, and they're gonna lose this case. As well they should. No matter how much they bluster.

Personally, I am going to find this all extremely painful to watch.

(A good chunk of the complaint and quite a bit of discussion over at The Leaky Cauldron here.)

Comments

[pinguthegreek.livejournal.com]

No, sorry. I disagree. The whole Harry Potter world came out of her head. Rowling is very much alive and well. Nobody should be publishing any factual information about the world of the Harry Potter novels without her permission.

I think that some authors are less inclined to litigate when it comes to people taking their intellectual property. For her personally, I don't think it's about anything she does in the future being compormised. It's about the fact that someone who hasn't spent all the years she has coming up with this world will make quite a bit of money for relatively little effort. If that book is published, he'll be making money out of someone else's work. That just is not right.