warner & jenna

[heidi tandy]

No: HPFGUIDX 706

Penny wrote

> Mind you, I think Warner Brothers' is being even more short-sighted.
> That's a really *stupid* publicity move, don't you think?  
> The true fans
> have enough qualms about the movie as is without the movie studio
> playing the Bad Guy with lots of money and stepping all over 
> the little
> fans everywhere.


I second everything penny said about jenna - and would love to talk 
to her about what the Stouffer camp said to her...

I think that if WB is going after fan sites, that's a very short 
sighted move - BUT if they are ONLY going after people who are 
selling "fake" HP merchandise like a clock I saw on Ebay once, or 
other things which are being marketed as official HParaphenalia, I'd 
have to agree with them. And given the law on trademarks & domain 
names, if they don't make an effort to obtain any domain names 
containing "harry potter" then they are putting their trademark 
rights at risk - as long as they don't go after the fan sites 
themselves (i.e. the content)