That case and that book - "Copy"

[Steve]

---  "dumbledore11214" <dumbledore11214 at ...> wrote:
>
> > bboyminn:
> > 
> > If you read the transcripts, as many of you seem to have
> > done, you know that the WB's attorney's are continually 
> > trying to force the word 'copy' into questions in any and
> > all  contexts in the desperate hope of getting positive 
> > acknowledgment so they can turn around and say, see he said
> > he copied. 
> > 
> > It is a pretty untransparent and obvious maneuver. 
> > 
> > Steve/bboyminn
> >
> 
> 
> Alla:
> 
> Well, yes to support one's argument that defendants copied, it is 
> helpful to try to make defendant's witnesses to admit that they 
> actually...copied.
> 
> 

bboyminn:

Yes, but apparently you have ignored the part where I mention
CONTEXT. They are forcing the word 'copy' into unrelated
contexts.

For example: (Paraphrased)

I remember a questions about updating the Lexicon after
book 7 came out. It went something like this -

After book 7 came out did you copy new information from that
book into the Lexicon and update your entries? 
(again, paraphrased)

This is very much like the old question 'Have you stopped
beating your wife yet?'. It is a question that really 
can't be answered either way. 

If the person answers 'Yes' meaning, yes, they updated the
Lexicon after book 7, the lawyer will interpret that as an
admission that they COPIED information from JKR's book. 

If they answer 'No' meaning they did not 'copy', then the
lawyer will accuse them of lying because the Lexicon was 
in fact updated. 

The lawyers is tying the word 'copy' to an unrelated context
in hope of tricking the person into a positive 
acknowledgment so they can twist it into an unintended 
context. 

Fortunately, the efforts were so blatantly obvious that they
couldn't get anyone to fall for it. 

Now there were all kinds of other questions that were more to
the point, that compared entries between the Lexicon and
canon text, etc....

But the WB lawyer tried this out of context 'copy' ploy so 
often that I have no doubt it hurt their case. So, in that 
sense, I guess I shouldn't complain.

Steve/bboyminn