[HPforGrownups] J.K.Rowling & The Legend of Rah and the Muggles

[B.K. DeLong]

No: HPFGUIDX 14480

At 03:06 PM 03/16/2001 +0000, you wrote:
>We would all be very stupid to assume that this is a coincidence. How
>can Rowling make up a story about sitting in a train and making up
>the characters, while she took the ideas from Stouffer? J.K. Rowling
>is taking all the credit for characters she did not even 'make'!

Go away, troll. Stop trying to pick a fight.

Since Stouffer's publisher went out of business 12 years before Harry 
Potter was published, did not send a copy of her books to the Libary of 
Congress, doesn't appear in ANY news archives prior to 1999 when her 
"dispute" came to light, and her books can't be found anywhere, how are we 
to know that Stouffer didn't change her drawings to look more like Harry? 
How do we know that she even had those books back then?

 From a legal standpoint, Stouffer did not trademark Larry Potter, or Lilly 
Potter or even Muggles when she first used them LONG before J.K. Rowling 
did. I don't even think she used the book enough "in commerce" (ie sold as 
many books as Rowling did) to warrant her getting the trademark rights. She 
didn't even apply for a trademark until AFTER Warner Bros. did.

Personally, I think Stouffer's being jealous and selfish to think that J.K. 
Rowling ripped her off.


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