Authors' moral responsibility (was Re: OOTP net book copy?????????)

[pippin_999]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Tim Regan" 
<timregan at m...> wrote:

> But in light of this, do fanfic authors have a moral responsibility 
> not to use children's book characters in sexual or violent 
> situations since they cannot control the distribution of their 
work?

Right now, *nobody* can control electronic distribution...ask the 
music industry. Do the labels have a moral obligation to stop 
recording music, since they can't keep the artists from being 
ripped off?

Lots of children's book characters are in the public domain 
anyway. In many such cases, the  original versions are 
nowadays thought too risque, violent or racist for 
children...should these not be available?

IIRC, JKR's lawyers were mostly concerned that precautions 
were in place so that children could not access adult content, not 
with forbidding the content itself. 

Pippin