d) The publisher of the Lexicon is called RDR and their lawyer appears to be a real jerk.
e) The cover - or maybe the preliminary mock-up of the cover, I can't tell - looks a lot like the British Harry Potter books. JKR/WB argues that it's trademark infringing.
f) Lawyers representing JKR found out about the book before it was published and asked for them to stop printing the book and for an advance copy of it. RDR refused to give them one. That right there is probably why a lawsuit was made.
g) Despite what most fantards will tell you, there have been plenty of encyclopedia-ish guides things of copyright books published, and it appears to be fair use if you go by what has been published before. This guy from Salon.com has some examples. (http://machinist.salon.com/blog/2007/11/13/harry_potter/) There's also been a lot of Harry Potter guides (http://rattlesnakeroot.livejournal.com/20960.html#cutid1) published in the past. "Harry Potter A-Z" is especially interesting because most people agree it was plagiarized from the Lexicon website (the wording is really close). The question basically is, why does Rowling object to the Lexicon and not to the other books?
h) There's the issue of the timeline on the CoS DVD. Steve was the first to point out that it duplicated a typo he had made in his timeline on the Lexicon site. Most people agree that the WB plagiarized it from his site, so ... there's that.
i) I think part of RDR's argument is going to be that JK Rowling has said before that she used the site as a reference when she was writing the newer Harry Potter books, and that likewise Steve got an email from Scholastic thanking him for keeping the website, because they found it helpful in the editing process. It's like h) - the official publishers were using Steve's work for free.
k) RDR's argument is that the Lexicon is "transformative" and scholarly, JKR's side hasn't proved that anyone would by the Lexicon instead of the phantom encyclopedia that may or may not be in the works, that the work is all in all fair use, and that JKR is a big meanie.
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Date: 2008-02-29 06:10 pm (UTC)e) The cover - or maybe the preliminary mock-up of the cover, I can't tell - looks a lot like the British Harry Potter books. JKR/WB argues that it's trademark infringing.
f) Lawyers representing JKR found out about the book before it was published and asked for them to stop printing the book and for an advance copy of it. RDR refused to give them one. That right there is probably why a lawsuit was made.
g) Despite what most fantards will tell you, there have been plenty of encyclopedia-ish guides things of copyright books published, and it appears to be fair use if you go by what has been published before. This guy from Salon.com has some examples. (http://machinist.salon.com/blog/2007/11/13/harry_potter/) There's also been a lot of Harry Potter guides (http://rattlesnakeroot.livejournal.com/20960.html#cutid1) published in the past. "Harry Potter A-Z" is especially interesting because most people agree it was plagiarized from the Lexicon website (the wording is really close). The question basically is, why does Rowling object to the Lexicon and not to the other books?
h) There's the issue of the timeline on the CoS DVD. Steve was the first to point out that it duplicated a typo he had made in his timeline on the Lexicon site. Most people agree that the WB plagiarized it from his site, so ... there's that.
i) I think part of RDR's argument is going to be that JK Rowling has said before that she used the site as a reference when she was writing the newer Harry Potter books, and that likewise Steve got an email from Scholastic thanking him for keeping the website, because they found it helpful in the editing process. It's like h) - the official publishers were using Steve's work for free.
k) RDR's argument is that the Lexicon is "transformative" and scholarly, JKR's side hasn't proved that anyone would by the Lexicon instead of the phantom encyclopedia that may or may not be in the works, that the work is all in all fair use, and that JKR is a big meanie.