REPOST: Re: Legal Scenario: Slytherin!Rowling vs. the Fanfic Author

[ER <ression@hotmail.com>]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Steve <bboy_mn at y...>" 
<bboy_mn at y...> wrote:

> 
> Again, FanFic operates at a lose, doesn't deprive or divert the
> original author's sources of income, and therefore in my book, is 
not
> a copyright violation. Also, despite being published on the 
Internet,
> it exists for Private Use. It is distributed in limited forums of 
like
> minded individuals for their private personal use.
> 

Absolutely agree, but it's not what I was "worrying" about. I was 
concerned about the fact (if I read Heidy Tandy's post correctly) 
that you can use JK's characters and get them to do something 
wonderful and then deprive JK of the right to have them do that same 
thing without breaching some copyright that you now own.

ER