JKR Sues Steve Van Der Ark (Lexicon Steve)

[Tonks]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "va32h" <va32h at ...> wrote:
>
> Rowling, Bloomsbury and Warner Brothers are suing Lexicon Steve and
> his publishers to prevent the release of a printed version of the
> Lexicon. 
> 
> JKR says this will interfere with her future publication of the
> encyclopedia. 
> 
> Hmmm, I thought the encyclopedia was supposed to be full of NEW
> material that we hadn't seen before.  How is this different from 
the
> Mugglenet book which used JKR's characters, place names, etc. 
> 
> Why object to the book but not the Lexicon itself (which JKR has 
oft
> praised and claimed she looked to when writing?)
>

Tonks:

Just one more indication that Rowling is not in her right mind.  
Actually, in all fairness to her, I bet it was the publishers. As 
far as WB goes they sue everyone! I once lost my account on E-bay 
for selling something and putting in the ad "your Harry Potter fan 
would love this". They told me that I can't use the HP name unless 
it is an HP item. I wrote them back and said that this put the 
term "he who must not be named" in a new light. And you know when we 
go to conventions, I remember the one in Canada a couple of years 
ago, we were told we can say "Happy Birthday Harry", but NOT "Happy 
Birthday Harry Potter". I understand that it is about saveguarding a 
trademark, but even so... it doesn't seem fair to Steve. 

Tonks_op