So does anyone know about this? This is the lawsuit Rowling and Warner Bros. filed against the librarian Steve Vander Ark, for his fanmade Harry Potter encyclopedia. Apparently this encyclopedia is way indepth, giving annotations and such to all of Rowling's work.
Personally I think Rowling and WB are full of crap for filing a lawsuit against this guy. Especially when Rowling has been quoted in saying that she used the encyclopedia for continuity purposes while writing her final books, and now she is saying that it is a lazy encyclopedia and wouldn't have the quality that she could give out. What about all the other Harry Potter books that aren't by her? All those, Harry Potter essay books. And Comparing and Contrasting Harry Potter to Tolkien crap. None of these people are getting sued. They are suing this poor guy because Rowling is a greedy witch in my opinion.
How many of you have encyclopedia's for Star Trek, and Star Wars, and all other kinds of video games and TV shows imaginable. Well according to Rowling and WB's case, all of those books are infringing the copyright of the author.
I don't know about you guys, but I predict the judge dismissing the case and Rowling having to pay off this Vander Ark guy.
So what do you guys think about this, is there a case here? Would his book sales infringe on hers at all if she were to come out with her own Harry Potter encyclopedia? This is a lot of bull in my opinion...what do you think?
What makes me kinda sad is I heard this Steve Vander Ark cried in court or something because he loved what J.K. Rowling did for writing his favorite books and now she is suing him. Poor guy, I guess I would cry too if my hero sued me for copyright infringement.