I'm sorry, but I'm starting to get a little confused with bringing in the idea of arguing about a trademark. JKR and the WB are arguing that the content of the lexicon book uses too much of copying word for word, without quotation marks, from all of the HP books combined. They've submitted and used a side by side camparison of the lexicon manuscript to the HP books to prove their point. That sounds to me more like copyright violation than questionable trademark to me.
Now whether or not all the content of the book is compiled straight from the website, JKR was fine with the website because a) it's not a book up for sale, and b) it was a hobby performed by fans, made available to fans for free.
Another thing, RDR books continually interchange what the lexicon book is. Is it an encyclopedia? Or is it a guidebook? Is it either or are they trying for both? That's confusing as well because I thought there were differences between the two.
By the way, I take back my statement of how the timeline matter was dropped. It turns out that Steve and RDR are still pushing the matter while in court. I'm also backing off of the argument of whether or not it was actual theft of Steve's work. The theory I briefly mentioned is just a theory, but it's possible I was wrong anyway.
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Date: 2008-04-15 11:36 pm (UTC)Now whether or not all the content of the book is compiled straight from the website, JKR was fine with the website because a) it's not a book up for sale, and b) it was a hobby performed by fans, made available to fans for free.
Another thing, RDR books continually interchange what the lexicon book is. Is it an encyclopedia? Or is it a guidebook? Is it either or are they trying for both? That's confusing as well because I thought there were differences between the two.
By the way, I take back my statement of how the timeline matter was dropped. It turns out that Steve and RDR are still pushing the matter while in court. I'm also backing off of the argument of whether or not it was actual theft of Steve's work. The theory I briefly mentioned is just a theory, but it's possible I was wrong anyway.