[HPFGU-OTChatter] Texas Quidditch update + Possible Copyright Problems?

[Silverthorne]

Paula now:

Hummmm..., Wonder how one would go about getting JKR's consent.  Could this be done by email?  It's worth a try.  The worst thing that could happen is getting a real "runaround".


Silverthorne:

Probably there's paerwork involved...lol. But yeah, I would guess it would have to start as an endorsement by JKR (or whatever legal team she (might) have to handle these sorts of things. And then it would go frm there.

For example, I used to particaipte in Pern Online RPG's (in fact, that was my first online participation in anything). If you didn't want to get legally fried by MacCaffrey, you actually had to pettion a specific site she had set up, give her a run down of the idea for your club, and then wait for a 'yes' or 'no'...and if she says 'no', you'd better not make the club (folks do anyway, but I would NOT want to be them when AM and/or her legal team finds them). 

There's also an entire set of rules you have to follow--no canon characters, No use of Bendan Weyr OR Ruatha, no exceptions, no alterations of certain facts (like the sexual orientation of riders of each type of dragon), no 'sport' colors for your dragons (gold, bronze, brown blue and green only--you can't even have another white one), etc...she really keeps a tight control on it...and as far as I know, she quit allowing any new clubs at all about 3 years back--the one I joined in and helped to create was like one of the last she gave the okay to.

Anne/Silverthorne


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