J.K. Rowling wins suit over encyclopedia fan. As she has admitted in the past, she went to the fan’s site and researched terms, characters, and the like for her books. Then she told a judge that the Lexicon was lifted from her prose.
Instead of working with this fan, Ms. Rowling chose
to sue. She could have co-creator rights over the encyclopedia, but didn’t want to share. This situation could have been win-win.When entertainment becomes apart of the popular vernacular, are we too to pay homage every time to Ms. Rowling? For this muggle, I won’t be buying her rendition of a Harry Potter encyclopedia because she will probably “lift” the fan’s original prose for her version.
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