Oi!

[ivyblossom]

Well, this just makes me sad:

Rowling acknowledged she once bestowed an award on Vander Ark's Web site because, she said, she wanted to encourage a very enthusiastic fan.

But she said she "almost choked on my coffee" one morning when she realized Vander Ark had warned others not to copy portions of his Web site. She said she now has second thoughts about all the encouragement she has given to online discussions and Web sites devoted to her books.

"I never censored it or wanted to censor it," she said, adding that if she loses the lawsuit, she will conclude she essentially gave away her copyrights by encouraging the Web sites.

"Other authors will say, `I need to exercise more control. She was an idiot. She let it all go,'" Rowling said.

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[ciceronianus.livejournal.com]

I don't know. I don't think there's anything more to JKR's words and actions than a sincere belief they are hers and not Steve's - she's essentially trying to keep RDR from publishing her words again and putting someone else's name on it. I was surprised to read that she was close to tears, but I suppose it's not really a stretch - maybe when the question was asked she genuinely looked at the hardest times of her life (before her books were published) and it hit her at once what Harry and her work and everything that led to her success meant?

Who knows, though? Maybe everything will come out after the trial - or, more likely, nothing will.

[ivyblossom.livejournal.com]

Oh, I didn't realize RDR was republishing the books themselves and claiming that Steve wrote them!

[ciceronianus.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I was being a bit vague there. They're not republishing the books - they are publishing the lexicon that Steve wrote, but JKR doesn't consider the version of it she's read to be anything more than a copy/paste job of the facts stated in the HP books.

[ivyblossom.livejournal.com]

Oh! That's not my experience of the Lexicon, but I haven't seen the version they're attempting to publish. As I know it, the lexicon is primarily paraphase rather than c/p.