That case and that book

[Carol]

Alla wrote:
> 
> So I left in your comparison of Basilisks unsnipped to suggest again 
> that you are comparing WEB Lexicon and FB, which is IMO incorrect, 
> since book and web version are QUITE different.
 
> I recommend comparing entries in the BOOK version which I linked to 
> in the beginning of this thread and Nora linked again few posts 
> upthread.

Carol responds:

Thank you very much for the link.

First, you're right that Steve V., for reasons that he presents
elsewhere in the testimony, has, indeed transformed the Lexicon into
an alphabetical list. He is mistaken in believing that doing so would
make the book easier to use or to produce (if I recall his arguments
correctly)--reference books organized around categories and arranged
alphabetically within the category or subcategory are produced all the
time, for example the Random House Word Menu. It isn't difficult to
find the relevant category--all the reader has to do is to consult the
table of contents. And if the reader isn't sure which category is
appropriate (hm--Would "wand cores" be under Beasts, Wizards,
Hogwarts, or Artifacts?), there's always that alphabetical list at the
end of the book commonly referred to as an index. As for the links to
other articles in the online Lexicon, which obviously can't be
duplicated in the print version, a copyeditor could easily change them
to cross references. 

IOW, Steve V. has gone to a lot of needless work to make his book
*less* useful and hurt his own case. I can only conclude that he knows
as little about book publishing as he does about copyright law. Sigh.
However, the points I made about the arrangement and content of his
book differing substantially from JKR's contemplated Scottish Book as
described in an interview still hold.

Second, I can't copy and paste the "Basilisk" entry directly from the
court documents, but it's a condensed version of the entry I already
quoted. I don't want to try to keep three windows open at the same
time and copy it here for fear of losing my post, so I'll type it up
(sigh!) and present it in a different post. However, I'll state right
here that it is *not* copied directly from either CoS or FB, and it
eliminates the long quotation from the imaginary library book.

Carol, not sure whether to sympathize with Steve V. or lose patience
with him altogether for not informing himself on Fair Use and book
publishing