On The Lighter Side ... RE: What's Leaky up to?

[Steve]

---  Lee Kaiwen <leekaiwen at ...> wrote:
>
> Steve said On 17/04/2008 05:07:
> ...
> 
> > 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
>

bboyminn:

Not necessarily, when people submitted their essays...etc...
to the site, they did so with the intend that it be published 
on that site. That constitutes permission. Now that permission
does not transfer over to the book unless, of course, they 
included, as I did, full unlimited permission to use my essay
in any and all publishing mediums. I retained my rights, while
transferring unlimited right to Steve Vander Ark. 

But the fact remains, if you submitted your writing to the site,
that constitutes permission for the site to use it on that site 
though not necessarily permission to use the information in 
other publishing mediums. Consequently that permission to 
publish on the site would transfer to JKR.

The website itself remains unchanged, it is merely a transfer 
of ownership of the site, and while a certain amount of the 
site is user generated, I think it is a very small portion, and
a portion that is not likely to be found in the printed book. 
So, I can see no conflicts.

Just passing it along.

Steve/bboyminn