What's Leaky up to? (was Re: Prayers For Lexicon Steve)

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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "P. Alexis Nguyen" 
<alexisnguyen at ...> wrote:
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>  Personally, I
> think JKR is ridiculous to think that the Lexicon book could compete
> with her encyclopedia, but then, that's a different thought.
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Alla:

I just wanted to say that even though I am hoping that JKR will win 
very much I definitely think that this argument had nothing to do with 
anything. I mean, maybe JKR personally felt that it is indeed true or 
whatever, but I think it IS rather silly and has nothing to do with the 
reason why the lawsuit was brought or at least should have been brought.

Of course I do not think that Lexicon book would be able to compete 
with her encyclopedia and I sure know which one I would buy - before 
this lawsuit I would have definitely bought both. I have plenty of HP 
related books at home and that is why that is one point I am quite 
confident on commenting. They ARE different from what I believe Steve's 
book will be, but I digress.

Yes, I disagree with JKR that it would have hurt her sales. But I 
wholeheartedly agree that if the book IS the copy of the lexicon with 
nothing else it is infringing on her copyright and in essense stealing 
of her work.

No, I do not think that the examples of lexicon entries that were 
brought up are adding up much new information or intepretation of the 
work, to me they are AT MOST summary of the work in Steve's (or whoever 
was typing them) words.

And after all that is how I was using the lexicon, to find the fact 
FROM THE BOOKS if I was too lasy to get the books.

Never once I was using Lexicon to find creative intepretation of the 
works and if asked, I can give you names of the books, where IMO I 
found PLENTY of creative interpretation.

I mean, no scratch that I of course read some of the essays there, but 
again it does not look like they are in the book, no?