[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: OOP reading on the AOL homepage!

[Heidi Tandy]

If you go to the-leaky-cauldron.org and do a search for The Sun you'll be able to find articles about the injunction. 

Technically, we can discuss the info, as long as we don't use the words from the book. 

This is, obviously, based on uk law, but is similar in point to US copyright law post-Ford, in which a weekly newsmagazine infringed on former Pres Ford's copyright in his memoirs by publishing an excerpt therefrom before the publication of the memoirs. And, similarly, right now, Hillary clinton's counsel is reportedly looking into similar action against the AP for distributing part of her memoirs before they were published; she would also claim copyright infringement. 

Of course, in the UK, they also have moral rights issues that travel with copyright infringement allegations, which say that jkr has rights to have her work not taken out of context or altered - arguably, in the uk, transcripts of the snippet would constitute such alteration. 

However, from what we've learned at tlc overnight, the sound clip is now authorised (although I recommend checking tlc to make sure) and thus, discussion without transcription could now be fine. 
-----Original Message-----
From: "Cindy C." <cindysphynx at comcast.net>
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 14:58:19 
To:HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: OOP reading on the AOL homepage!

Real-To:  "Cindy C." <cindysphynx at comcast.net>

Hey, does anyone have a link to any articles about this injunction or 
temporary restraining order or whatever it was that caused this 
fracas?  I have some idle curiosity about how a court can issue 
something that might constrain fans from discussing a piece of a 
book, even if it was obtained illegally.  


Cindy -- who finds interesting legal issues everywhere she looks




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