[the_old_crowd] Re: Beedle the Bard; Lexicon

[ewe2]

On Nov 2, 2007 12:01 AM, Annemehr <annemehr at ...> wrote:

> Well, apparently the publisher has ignored numerous cease and desist
> orders.  I'd be more interested in how it got started in the first
> place, but that'd be for Steve to say.

They're entitled to ignore such c&d's under fair use. And there are
other arguments cf. below.

> But I wonder if JKR *really* thinks a printed Lexicon would compete
> with her promised-some-day encyclopedia.  I mean, she *was* planning on
> publishing never-before-revealed details, wasn't she?  I can respect
> her objection to the sale of such material by others for "their own
> personal gain," however. (Quote taken from JKR's news item on her site.)

I don't see much difference between books that talk about the HP
series (which have had no barrier to publication) and books that are
essentially lists of canon which is essentially what the Lexicon is.
The only problem I can see here is that the Lexicon might actually
compete with JKR enterprises who didn't think of it first. If you can
draw correlations between HP and myth and publish it, then the Lexicon
publishers have a stab at a prior art defence, or at least that's how
my tiny brain sees it.

ewe2

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