JK Rowling sues geek author (1 Viewer)

[Froog]

multimillionaire author of the harry potter books is sueing this geek guy who is writing an encyclopaedia on the books:


Steven Vander Ark said his only goal was to celebrate Rowling, sitting in front of him, who he called a "genius".
Rowling had earlier told the court his plans to publish The Harry Potter Lexicon amounted to "wholesale theft".
She is suing Mr Vander Ark and his publisher RDR Books in New York for copyright infringement.
Asked whether he still thought of himself as part of the Harry Potter fan community, Mr Vander Ark struggled to speak through tears. "I do," he said. "It's been... it's been difficult because there's been a lot of criticism, obviously, but... it has been an important part of my life for the last nine years or so."



On Monday, Rowling told the court she had stopped work on a new novel because her legal concerns had "decimated my creative work". She denied the case was about money and accused Mr Vander Ark of "an act of betrayal" in using her fiction as the basis for his guide.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7349913.stm

the poor fucker, don't know what rowling has to gain by all this. i guess he still breached copyright, but fucking hell, give the guy a break.
look at him, he is harry potter for fuck sake:

 

[theoootini]

it's fair use innit?

 

[Froog]

not sure. what a bitch though. someone writes a guide to your books and you sue them. so what if its a bad guide as she said? it'll hardly dissuade anyone else from buying the books.

 

[SONYMEGADRIVE]

i could have done with that guide at christmas watching
Harry Poster Fights a Werewolf - what the shit was that
all about? They lost me after about an hour

 

[Lefty Frizzell]

This is exactly like the time Phil Collins sued those African percussionists.

 

[magicbastarder]

she's suing him because she was planning on releasing her own encyclopaedia.

 

[Lefty Frizzell]

Encyclopaedophile.

 

[timbot]

It must be nice for JK Rowling to be the one sueing for plagarism for a change...

 

[Jill Hives]

Why is it when people get rich quick they become utterly detestable. I have still never read one of these books.

 

[Yurn!]

this whore really needs more money huh.

are operations to fix your wonky creepy mouth and humourless dead eyes THAT expensive???

 

[cephalopod]

You know when they make the last movies, and Daniel Radcliffe is gonna be like a man and stuff, how's that gonna work?

 

[Unicron]

You know when they make the last movies, and Daniel Radcliffe is gonna be like a man and stuff, how's that gonna work?

The girl who plays the girl turned 18 this week. Jus' sayin' in case there were folk interested.

 

[Dixer]

What age is that dude? Seriously? Can the judge slap him and tell him to cop on or...?

Asked whether he still thought of himself as part of the Harry Potter fan community, Mr Vander Ark struggled to speak through tears. "I do," he said. "It's been... it's been difficult because there's been a lot of criticism, obviously, but... it has been an important part of my life for the last nine years or so."

 

[cephalopod]

Jaysis, he's been cursed already with that face, you'd think Jake Dowling would allow him a little access to some of the facial reconstruction funding she has been afforded by Providence?

 

[Vinnie]

He looks like he should be excitedly stood over the ark of the covenant in full Gestapo regalia

 

[Lefty Frizzell]

He reminds me of 1980's tennis ace Ivan Lendl.

 

[schmegeggin]

He reminds me of 1980's tennis ace Ivan Lendl.

i was gonna say martina navratilova

 

[cephalopod]

Maybe he's a creature out of Harry Potter? A muggeldy fump or whatever the fuck they are called.

 

[Mormon Nailer]

it's fair use innit?

Yes it is.

http://machinist.salon.com/blog/2008/04/14/harry_potter_case/index.html

 

[Goodbye]

He's definitely a gay woman.