If it weren't copyrighted text, we could download the books from archive.org or the gutenberg project. There's no restriction on writing about something, copyright or no. People are conflating copyright and trademark here, methinks.
In my experiences with the lexicon, Steve did not just "rearrange text". He wrote articles on elements of the stories, quoting the books for support. I haven't seen the item up for publication, and I presume you haven't either, so perhaps we're not in the best position to judge, but if Steve was publishing the lexicon, I don't see why that's a problem, really. Fandom doesn't like people selling fanworks for its own reasons, but I don't quite get JKR's reasoning here, as stated in the article.
Even if he did go ahead and publish it, it wouldn't hamper anyone from picking up JKR's own encyclopedia. I'm looking forward to hearing more details about why she's doing this now. I remain unimpressed.
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Date: 2008-04-15 03:28 am (UTC)In my experiences with the lexicon, Steve did not just "rearrange text". He wrote articles on elements of the stories, quoting the books for support. I haven't seen the item up for publication, and I presume you haven't either, so perhaps we're not in the best position to judge, but if Steve was publishing the lexicon, I don't see why that's a problem, really. Fandom doesn't like people selling fanworks for its own reasons, but I don't quite get JKR's reasoning here, as stated in the article.
Even if he did go ahead and publish it, it wouldn't hamper anyone from picking up JKR's own encyclopedia. I'm looking forward to hearing more details about why she's doing this now. I remain unimpressed.