Thoughts from a Different Perspective

[Steve]

---  "Steve" <bboyminn at ...> wrote:
>
> ...
> 
> Along comes a publisher that give SteveV their absolute and
> determined assurance that his lexicon fall well within 'Fair
> Use'. Once they convinced him of this, and once a contract 
> was signed, the whole matter was out of SteveV's hands. **Now
> he is bound by contract to defend his publisher.*** He has
> consigned, in a manner of speaking, the Lexicon over to them. 
> 
> If they choose to fight JKR request to cease and desist, then
> SteveV has no choice but to accept the publisher's decision. 
> And to do his part NOT to breech the contract he signed.
> 
> ...

bboyminn:

I was just reading the Transcript of Day 1 of the trial in which
Mr. Rapoport of RDR Publishing is testifying. In it was a
reference to an email send from RDR to Steve Vander Ark which 
goes like this, which for me confirms my suspicions.

- - - - - - - - - - - - 
Q.  Now, first of all, you said in this e-mail to
Mr. Vander Ark:  Anything you say in public can and will be
used against you.  Did you say that to him?

A.  Yes.
- - - - - - - - - - - -

As I suspected SteveV was warned that if he spoke out against
the publisher, or in any way tried to sabotage the marketing
of the book, the publisher would use those statements against
SteveV in a civil suit.

Now, I'm reading a lot into that, but I don't see any other
way of interpreting it. 

So, as I've said, SteveV was bound by contract to side with
his publisher once the contract was signed. 

For what it's worth.

Steve/bboyminn