That case and that book

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Nora:
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The copyright holder has the prerogative to pursue charges of
copyright violation or to let them fly--I'm unsure about how much
consistency is required. But there is a history here of going after
publications which they considered violating--and letting many others
go by. David Langford, who did "The End of Harry Potter?", made
comments that CLLA was all "sweetness and light" to work with:

http://news.ansible.co.uk/a248.html

"That J.K. Rowling/Warner Bros lawsuit against RDR Books, prospective
publishers of a condensed print version of Steve Vander Ark's Harry
Potter Lexicon website, chugs on remorselessly. Even my name was
bandied in the legal filings, with RDR citing my own HP exegesis as
one of six works which didn't get sued despite 'especially striking
similarities to the Lexicon in both format and content'. I can't see
the likeness myself, and neither can JKR/WB, whose counter-filing
agrees that the Langford epic wasn't marketed as 'an encyclopedia or
guide'. I also heard from RDR, asking how I got away with it -- that
is, whether JKR/WB had been horrid to me. In fact, once Gollancz had
let the author's agents see early proofs, all was sweetness and 
light."

I hope this is helpful.




Alla:

Oh dear. I used to have this book ( by David Langford I mean), gave 
it to friend at work. It is not it is not it is NOT like Lexicon, not 
even close.

And isn't it funny how RDR asked him how he could get away with it?

Get away with what, eh? Have you even read the book RDR people? But 
he offers a good recipe it seems, just be NICE to the author's agent 
and SHOW them the book.

Although, yes, yes I know that it would have been likely irrelevant, 
since his book is theorising on what happens, but still be nice often 
seems to work.

Was JKR's lawyer screaming at Mr. Rapaport before or AFTER he was 
ignoring their e-mails and saying he had family tragedy while he 
continued to actively market the book. Oy. No, I do not condone 
screaming, but I can certainly understand when one screams after 
being lied to in such blatant manner.



And, um, yes some books they forced off the market ( that's not to 
you Nora of course, just in general) - they thought the books are 
infringing so they took action, I would think.