Don't color!

[Steve Vander Ark]

No: HPFGUIDX 1877

>cranky when my staff just copies things willy-nilly.
> 
> Then I won't ask you how you feel on the MP3 issue...  :)
> 
>                    -- Dave, who is guilty of the heinous crime of 
recording 
> his CD's
>                          to cassette so he can listen to them in 
his car's 
> tape player  :)

Yeah, I've done that too. But only with CDs I actually own, never 
with ones, say, from the library or borrowed from friends. I like to 
find those comfortable gray areas.

But let's just kind of let this topic drop. This whole copyright 
thing gets people upset. And none of you are on my staff and 
therefore my responsibility, therefore I don't give a hoot what you 
do with your CDs. It's not for me to impose my black, white, and gray 
areas on anyone else.

That said, I would care if you cut and pasted things from my website, 
the Harry Potter Lexicon, maybe the timeline, for example, and posted 
it here or added it to your own website or whatever. That's what I 
mean about getting cranky. If you take an article I've written for a 
magazine and make copies, that bothers me. So maybe I should be 
consistent and protect EVERYONE'S creative output. 

Oh well. Maybe I'll just go to bed... :)

Steve Vander Ark
The Harry Potter Lexicon
http://www.i2k.com/~svderark/lexicon