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

[o_caipora]

No: HPFGUIDX 83156

"sbursztynski" <greatraven at h...> wrote:

> You at least have to give permission for a reprint. 
[...]
> I'd still be mad as hell if 
> someone reprinted without my permission *and* made money on the 
deal!

Based on my limited RL experience - only once has anything I've 
written been printed in a vehicle with a circulation over a million - 
when you write you sell the copyright. Then they do with it what they 
will. I've seen things of mine on the Internet, presumably with 
permission of they copyright owner, who didn't ask my approval. 

Here's something by Orson Scott Card on copyright. Note what he has 
to say about "work for hire". Sometimes to get their work recorded, 
musicians have to sign away the copyright:

http://www.ornery.org/essays/warwatch/2003-09-07-1.html

The Skeeter/Lovegood/Prophet arrangement seems perfectly normal. 

 - Caipora