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

[sistermagpie]

> > Alla:
> > 
> > And how do you know that people who support JKR's stance support it 
> > JUST because they like her? 
> 
> Kemper now:
> I was just writing a response when Alla's articulate post popped up.
> Snipping everything else... I could not agree more with Alla.
> 
> Kemper, who does not know JKR and can't speak to liking/disliking her
> as a person... though I can speak about liking/disliking what she
> wrote but you can see that on Main

Magpie:
I agree with Alla too--and not out of love for JKR. I just heard a 
reference to "Castle Rock" that sounded very similar. Somebody wrote a 
book called the Seinfeld Aptitude Test, which basically took facts from 
Seinfeld and put them into a trivia book. The court ruled that if you 
take someone else's fictional facts and make a derivative work, you did 
wrong. RDR would try to claim that the Lexicon adds scholarly analysis, 
but I don't really think it does. 

I can see how it's not like an encyclopedia, because creating fictional 
facts is a big part of creating the book. In fact, that seemed to be a 
flaw in the cross examination of JKR, that every time the lawyer tried 
to bring up how much work went into the Lexicon JKR could remind them 
that yes, she knows how much work went into it because she did all of 
it when she created everything in it.

I honestly have no desire for JKR to win on a personal level, or for 
Steve to lose, or vice versa. My limited understanding of the law just 
leads me to think JKR is correct. 

-m