Copyright and Rita Skeeter ( WAS: Re: Hermione's growth)

feetmadeofclay feetmadeofclay at yahoo.ca
Thu Oct 16 18:11:20 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 83028

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sbursztynski" 

> BTW, if I were Rita Skeeter, I'd be furious 
> about the fact that Mr Lovegood had made a lot of money out of an 
> article that I had worked hard on and for which I hadn't been paid. I 
> suppose there isn't a copyright law in the WW? 

That isn't against copyright law. Rita agreed to the arrangement.  
The idea being the only freaks and struggling writers would want to 
contribute to paper that couldn't pay them - since they get nothing 
out of it, excepting a little pride.  Rita had little choice.  It was 
her in back to the real press.

She benefited and probably made money when she sold her article to 
the Prophet.  

But probably the WW has its own regulations regarding the area we 
call 'intellectual property'.  Seeing as how its law is entirely 
oblivious to any many concepts ingrained in the British Common Law 
and a part of the British constitution, I would guess that it has a 
very distinct and foriegn take on ownership of such material.  What 
that could be I have no idea.

Golly 






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