Thoughts from a Different Perspective

[dumbledore11214]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Lee Storm(God Is The Healing 
Force)" <n2fgc at ...> wrote:
<SNIP quotes, go UPTHREAD to read them>
>> [Lee]:
> As the links and quotes show, *RDR* approached *Steve V.* and not 
the other
> way round.
> 
> And, as an aside, I've looked at almost 200 articles which all seem 
to have
> the same text within them.  Hmm--who was *really* the originator? 
<Big Evil
> Grin>
>


Alla:

Thanks for the quotes. So you seriously believe that publisher can 
FORCE the person to enter a contract which said person has no desire 
to enter whatsoever, moreover to enter a contract that said person 
has serious legal concerns about? All that publisher has to say is 
don't worry it is going to be fine.

I am afraid I don't. There may be contracts that person may have hard 
time to get out of, although even that is exaggerated IMO, but I have 
never heard of the contract that magically FORCES the person to sign 
it, except in HP books LOL. I mean I am not talking about situation 
when person is literally forced to sign with a gun or similar kind of 
duress, but you are not alleging that Steve signed under duress, 
right?

RDR approached Steve, sure, but IMO you cannot hire somebody for the 
job unless their resume is already on the market. 


Have you read Steve's testimony at trial? Does his discussion with 
RDR sound to you as somebody who did not want to do it?

And is in't it funny that he e-mailed JKR reps for a job as her 
editor and in a few months RDR comes along and he proceeds to publish 
his own? If I could speculate about his intentions, I would say that 
it sounds like sour grapes to me.

Do not get me wrong, I do not like RDR AT ALL, I just do not see 
Steve as innocent in this whole affair. 

And heee, indemnification provision, sounds like very strong evidence 
to me that Steve knew he may be facing possibility of lawsuit and 
went ahead anyways.