[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Prayers For Lexicon Steve

[Lee Storm(God Is The Healing Force)]

[Carol]:
| And even if Steve's book were published, I can't see how it could
| cut into her profits. She's a billionaire, with money still coming in,
| and WB isn't hurting financially, either. 

[Lee]:
Agreed, because especially since if/when she writes an encyclopedia, it
would/could be classified as the "Official" encyclopedia.  Everyone who can
get it will want it, IMO.

[Carol]:
| I don't think that Lexicon
| Steve, who after all is her admirer and whose website all of us
| probably have found helpful on one occasion or another,

[Lee]:
Including Jo herself and some of her editors...

[Carol]:
| *intended* any
| harm to her or any infringement of copyright. His mistake, I suppose,
| was resisting the cease and desist order.

[Lee]:
I think his publishers might be guilty more than he.  I'm given to
understand that, initially, he feared infringement and didn't want to put
out the book but was persuaded that no infringement was present by the RDR
Publishers.

[Carol]:
| He should have asked what he
| could do to make the book acceptable to her. Nor do I think that his
| book, which is based on previously published books, could in any way
| compete with her planned encyclopedia, which is based on information
| he has no access to, either in her notes or in her head.

[Lee]:
Exactly.  And so long as he didn't say "Official Encyclopedia," I guess I
can't see the problem.  It appears that one problem is the projected book
price which is something like $24.95, and this says that money is being made
from the sale of the books which is probably what translates into "cutting
into" the market.

<Sigh>  I was never good at legalese. :-)

As far as I'm concerned, and this may be more naive than I should be, but as
long as there is a proper disclaimer and the word "Unofficial" appears and
the correct attribution is made to Jo and WB and the rest, then there
shouldn't be a problem.

Just my two knuts.

Lee

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