Gothamist: J.K. Rowling In NYC Court to Stop Potter Lexicon Book

slappy

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:36:30 -0500

Big A/72 Point taken. Thanks.

JacqueMehoff

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:14:31 -0500

How would she fare on MILF Island? Those eighth graders would go bonkers.

wowthatsucks

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:55:02 -0500

MILF!

roe

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:04:45 -0500

A number of Harry Potter guides and parody books already exist and Rowling is completely fine with them. As mentioned, she's always been supportive of fan sites, too. If she's going after this particular one for copyright infringement, it seems to be justified.

Big Al72

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:46:58 -0500

If she wins this I guess we won't see a Harry Potter for Dummies. No, you could see a Harry Potter for Dummies, as long as that book is a "Cliff's Notes" style commentary or explanation on the books and doesn't just copy details from the books as the Lexicon did. There was a similar case in the 1990's when the producers of "Seinfeld" sued the publishers of a book called "The Seinfeld Aptitude Test". The publishers lost because the Seinfeld book just repeated details from the show, without making any commentary about them. Here is a wikipedia summary of that case. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Rock_Entertainment%2C_Inc._v._Carol_Publishing_Group

slappy

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:13:08 -0500

If she wins this I guess we won't see a Harry Potter for Dummies.