[HPforGrownups] Should JKR shut up? (was Re: I am so happy...

[Lee Kaiwen]

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juli17 at aol.com blessed us with this gem On 22/10/2007 13:42:

> What was she supposed to do, say it is a secret or something?

How about turn it back on the audience and just let them decide for 
themselves? It's what I usually do with my daughter when I want her to 
know her opinion is a valid and valuable as my own.

> If fans didn't want to know ...

Didn't want to know what? I admit I didn't read the interview, but was 
the questioner asking whether DD was homosexual, or simply how JKR 
thought on the issue? And was JKR's response presenting it as fact (my 
impression is yes, but again, I didn't read the interview) or simply as 
her own views, with room for readers' alternative interpretations?

 > That is something of a given when you consider how tolerant
 > she is of fan fiction.

I'm sure this is going to re-open this whole can of worms re: fanfic but 
what the hey: Frankly, there's not a lot JKR can do about fanfic, at 
least in the US, as long as it's not done for profit. In the US the 
Supreme Court has already ruled that the paramount tests of infringement 
are whether the alleged infringement competes in the same market (see 
the Beatles' Apple Records trademark suit against Apple Computer, for 
example) and whether it threatens the market for the original material. 
Not-for-profit fanfic does neither. Frankly, JKR has no choice but to be 
tolerant.

--CJ