[HPFGU-OTChatter] On The Lighter Side ... RE: What's Leaky up to?

[Lee Kaiwen]

Steve said On 17/04/2008 05:07:
> My personally opinion is that JKR and SteveV are just along
> for the ride.

I think you're partly right in this. Though I think JKR is a willing 
passenger who is feeling her creation threatened. I suspect Steve is 
more an unwilling participant than she.

> I think the best settlement would be for JKR to personally
> buy the on-line Lexicon including all existing information
> and all future information.

Problem is Steve doesn't own a lot of the site's content. Much of the 
critique and analysis on the site was user-produced and contributed. 
Either JKR and her lawyers would have to negotiate individually with 
each and every contributor, or Steve would have to strip out all the 
user-contributed stuff; what JKR would end up with in that case is a 
rather emaciated rendition of the current site. I suspect that would, in 
effect, kill it..

--CJ