“While the Lexicon, in its current state, is not a fair use of the Harry Potter works, reference works that share the Lexicon’s purpose of aiding readers of literature generally should be encouraged rather than stifled.”-Judge Patterson The Judge agreed with JK Rowling that having someone else publish a Harry Potter lexicon would be bad for Ms Rowling, that it would cause her irreparable harm as a writer. The Lexicon is basically putting a website into print form. JK Rowling didn’t object to a site that pointed fans to her works but she was not too keen on someone else…
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J.K. Rowling and The Harry Potter Lexicon
“I really don’t want to cry because I’m British, you know,” J.K. Rowling said. “You know, these books, they saved me, not just in the very obvious material sense, although they did do that. … I would have to say that there was a time when they saved my sanity.” J.K. Rowling, famous for stealing every fantasy idea ever written and plopping it down in a new Harry Potter book is suing a fan of Harry Potter to keep him from publishing a book about Harry Potter. J.K. Rowling sued Michigan-based RDR Books to stop publication of Steven Vander Ark’s…