by Dave
The copyright case Rowling brought against Steve Vander Ark goes to trial this week, as I’m sure some of you read. I’m not going to offer up anything new about the case, copyright infringement, or her ownership over her work (authorial or otherwise).
I thought I’d give you a couple of links:
This one takes you to one of the many Yahoo! articles from the AP about the story over the last couple of days.
This one takes you to the actual legal brief filed on behalf of Rowling and Warner Bros. The document is a matter of public record, and published in the The Wall Street Journal. It’s particularly interesting to read some of the summary points given in the brief concerning the books and the films.
The AP story offers this as the closing paragraph:
She said she now has second thoughts about all the encouragement she has given to online discussions and Web sites devoted to her books.
Obviously, she would not seek a wholesale shutdown of sites like The Hog’s Head. But, what if she stops actively participating with sites like The Leaky Cauldron?
Rowling has also commented that she worries about the ramifications that publishing the Lexicon might have on other sites — that publishing something previously free on the web might force the rest of us writing on the web to do the same so as to stay competative. Not sure I buy the last one.
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A Published Lexicon, and a Beedle Movie
by Travis Prinzi on December 9, 2008
Steve Vander Ark’s Lexicon is finally going to be published, after some revisions to the book are made, putting it in compliance with the court’s ruling.
Warner Bros. is talking about a Beedle movie. As I was reading the book, I thought, “A movie of these five stories might be interesting, if put in the right hands.” But one thought has caused this idea to come crashing down on my head:
Michael Gambon as Dumbledore the narrator.
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