Harry Potter Lexicon author appeals Rowling win
p2pnet news view | Freedom:- “I guess I underestimated the resolve of the defendants and defendants’ lawyers, who include the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society,” says Recording Industry vs The People’s Ray Beckerman.
Harry Potter author JK Rowling had apparently won her case against small online publisher Steven Vander Ark (right), said p2pnet in September.
Rowling and her partners, Warner Bros, had sued him in a copyright dispute.
The Stanford Law School’s Fair Use Project represented RDR Books, which’d been planning to publish Vander Ark’s online Harry Potter Lexicon.
“The Harry Potter Lexicon – This is such a great site that I have been known to sneak into an internet café while out writing and check a fact rather than go into a bookshop and buy a copy of Harry Potter (which is embarrassing),” Rowling herself once said of it.
“A website for the dangerously obsessive; my natural home.”
But she took a diametrically opposing view when the news broke that RDR was planning to turn it into a hardback book.
Or did Warner Bros raise the initial objection?
Either way, Rowling sued and won and Beckerman suggested it was unlikely Stanford or Vander Ark would appeal.
But he was wrong.
“Copyright and Fair Use” at Stanford Law School reports that the defendant publisher, RDR Books, has filed an appeal from the Judge’s decision in Warner Bros. Pictures v. RDR Books, the case involving the Harry Patter Lexicon,” he says, adding:
“The Judge, after a bench trial, issued an injunction and statutory damages of $6750 holding that the Lexicon was not protected by fair use due to (a) sloppiness in attribution in sections, (b) the length of some of the quotes, and (c) imitation of J.K. Rowling’s writing style in portions.”
Recording Industry vs The People – Harry Potter Lexicon decision appealed, November 11, 2008
p2pnet – JK Rowling wins Harry Potter copyright case, September 9, 2008
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