One reporter reacts to JKR's revelations

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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" 
<dumbledore11214 at ...> wrote:
>
> > > Alla:
> > > 
> > > Leaky gives pretty impassioned summaries of what is going on 
> now, so 
> > > if you are interested in the history from both sides, it is all 
> > > there.
> > > 
> > > I wish it would not come to that, but if the book will be 
indeed 
> > > direct copy of Lexicon, JKR 100% right.
> > 
> > Magpie:
> > Yeah, I'm not a lawyer but from what I read JKR's completely 
right 
> > here. The publishers sound insane. 
 
> Alla:
> I find publisher's position to be mindboggling, frankly from what I 
> read.

zgirnius:
An online friend of mine found a blog with an entry on the suit. The 
blogger, William F. Patry, is an expert in copyright law and the fair 
use exception, and has written treatises on the subject. He went over 
to the Lexicon and checked out the first entry online. (Happens to be 
in the Dictionary of Magic, the entry for the Accio spell). He 
considers that entry a good example of "fair use", which suggests 
that even Rowling's legal advisor's assertion that a print copy of 
the online Lexicon is a violation, is not open-and-shut.

Link to full article below:
http://williampatry.blogspot.com/2007/11/harry-potter-lexicon-
suit.html