The WB basically lifted his incredibly intricate timeline off his website for their DVD.
That matter was dropped and never fully proven to be true. (Even though RDR brought that back up in the legal documents in the lawsuit.) There's actually a theory that anyone could have made the same exact mistake on the timeline when all they had to go on was the text from the books themselves with or without realizing that the books were inconsistent. There's not a copyright on doing math and looking at calendars.
Of course I agree that he had a right to tell people not to lift anything from the website. It's not right to plagiarize one of their legitimate essays, articles, and critical analysis. Nor is it right to copy the site layout, unique organization, or the graphics.
He and his team have worked very hard to compile HPott information over the years.
Well that was their choice wasn't it? JKR honored their efforts with a well deserve award mentioned on her website. Does that discredit the effort of the building of the HP world that JKR did for nearly 20 or more that she has to give up her rights to it? I don't think so.
Even though a big portion of the Lexicon is devoted to facts from the books, quotes from the book, etc, it takes a long time to get all that information out of the books and onto the internet.
It's been proven by a tech from the RDR team that it's impossible for anyone to print the entire website out and sell it as a book because the site is too huge.
I'm sure that JKR will find it difficult to compile her universe when she publishes her encyclopedia.
She already has a unique design in mind for her encyclopedia book. All she'd have to do is use her own work and no one else's for the content. I doubt it would be as hard as trying to compile the whole lexicon website into a book (with all rights taken care of) considering the fanfiction, multiple essays and article by multiple people and what not aside from the facts from the HP books themselves.
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Date: 2008-04-15 06:14 am (UTC)That matter was dropped and never fully proven to be true. (Even though RDR brought that back up in the legal documents in the lawsuit.) There's actually a theory that anyone could have made the same exact mistake on the timeline when all they had to go on was the text from the books themselves with or without realizing that the books were inconsistent. There's not a copyright on doing math and looking at calendars.
Of course I agree that he had a right to tell people not to lift anything from the website. It's not right to plagiarize one of their legitimate essays, articles, and critical analysis. Nor is it right to copy the site layout, unique organization, or the graphics.
He and his team have worked very hard to compile HPott information over the years.
Well that was their choice wasn't it? JKR honored their efforts with a well deserve award mentioned on her website. Does that discredit the effort of the building of the HP world that JKR did for nearly 20 or more that she has to give up her rights to it? I don't think so.
Even though a big portion of the Lexicon is devoted to facts from the books, quotes from the book, etc, it takes a long time to get all that information out of the books and onto the internet.
It's been proven by a tech from the RDR team that it's impossible for anyone to print the entire website out and sell it as a book because the site is too huge.
I'm sure that JKR will find it difficult to compile her universe when she publishes her encyclopedia.
She already has a unique design in mind for her encyclopedia book. All she'd have to do is use her own work and no one else's for the content. I doubt it would be as hard as trying to compile the whole lexicon website into a book (with all rights taken care of) considering the fanfiction, multiple essays and article by multiple people and what not aside from the facts from the HP books themselves.