[HPFGU-OTChatter] That trial

[bumbledor]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Geoff Bannister" <gbannister10 at tiscali.co.uk>


> Geoff:
>
> Interestingly, I was in a branch of W.H.Smiths this
> morning and the front page of the Daily Telegraph
> caught my eye, because there was a picture of JKR
> on the front page.
>
> I took a surreptitious peek at the inside page
> mentioned and found the following:
>
> "In an exchange with a witness, Judge Robert
> Patterson Jr admitted that he was not a Harry
> Potter fan.
>
> Miss Rowling is calling for authors' rights to
> be protected. His only experience of reading one
> of the books was during a visit by his grandchildren
> when he read them half of Harry Potter and the
> Sorcerer's Stone**, the first in the series.
>
> He found it hard to follow Rowling's "magical world",
> he said, as it was filled with strange names and words
> that would be gibberish in any other context.
>
> "I found it extremely complex," he said - even more
> so than the novels of Dickens that his own father
> read to him as a child.
>
> Judge Patterson suggested there was genuine worth in
> an encyclopaedia like The Harry Potter Lexicon,
> written by Steven Vander Ark, that Rowling is
> attempting to block by claiming that it breaches
> her copyright."
>

Geoff,
  I think what we need is a program that will allow all the users to copy 
the webpage/site to our own Hard drives.. that way we have a copy of it.

I used to have such a program.. THEN What will JKR do? Espically if Steve 
makes all his work available for free, but only asks for donations? Or if he 
burns it to a CD, and aks you to send a blank CD, SASE postage? Then what?

JKR is being petty on this one. No doubt. Espically since hes done all the 
real work.. She owes him for that.