The Fair Use Doctrine

[Tonks]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> 
wrote:
>
>
> Anyway, the judge sounds like a man of sense. Maybe *he* should sit
> down and compare a page or two of the Lexicon to the relevant pages
> from JKR's books. Better yet, he should finish reading SS/PS (even
the Scholosatic edition would do, but of course the Bloomsbury 
edition
would be better) and at least sample some chapters from the other
books.

Tonks:

lol. I can just see that poor Judge, who apparently did not like the
book that he did half read being forced to read the whole series. He
said that the names and places were geberish. I wonders if he were
thinking of Lord of the Rings instead. I could never get into that
series because of all of the strange names that Tolken just made up 
and
I could not pronounce or remember. But Harry Potter names??

Here is part of a news story about the Judge:

"He likened the case to that of Jarndyce v Jarndyce in Charles
Dickens’s Bleak House about the pain and damage of a long drawn-out
suit.

The judge predicted a similar fate for the Lexicon case.

He said it clearly involved unresolved areas of American law, and was
almost certain to end in years of appeals and misery."
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I suspect that he is right. There will be no cut and dry decission on
this. It will drag on and on. And WB has the money to fight for the
next 100 years and after that. So the good news for the rest of us, 
is
that fandom can keep doing what it is doing for a long time to come,
whatever the final outcome of this suit turns our to be.

Tonks_op
who agrees with Lee, I wish everyone could just play nice. Then we 
can
all keep being friends, kiss and makeup and go on having fun with HP.
Oh, wait, HERE I can boldly say "Harry Potter"!