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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[ivyblossom.livejournal.com]

Nor to understand the basics of how copyright works. My favourite version of this same argument is the one where faculty believe that they own the copyright of their students' notes...because students are writing down short form paraphrases of what the instructor said and did in class, the instructor imagines that they can tell students who they can and can't show their notes to, or whether or not those notes can go online. Unfortunately for them...no. Students own the copyright to their own notes (http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=search&case=/data2/circs/11th/942157opa.html), even if there's nothing "original" in them.

[max-ambiguity.livejournal.com]

Sigh. I don't like it when students sell their notes, but it's not because I believe I have copyright over their notes. But they are making money off of my intellectual work, which I do reserve the right to (i.e., I reserve the right to my lectures, not their notes). But I would never try to sue them or throw a fit about it. I'd probably just go ahead and put them out on a public website so that everyone could access them for free instead.

[ivyblossom.livejournal.com]

Yeah, exactly. Why anyone would want to use someone else's perspective on a lecture to study from, I have no idea...