J.K. Rowling, the writer behind the wizardly Harry Potter just put a serious dissappearing spell on the book :The Harry Potter Lexicon.
A Federal judge this morning put the final touch to the publication which had been planned, saying that the publication violates Rowlings rights as the creator.
The book was bases on a fan site, which is now also defunct.
U.S. District Judge Robert Patterson Jr. took no heed of the defenses argument that the planned Lexion was protected under “fair-use” doctrines of the copyright law.
Last fall J.K. and Warner Brother got together to sue the author, and his publisher, Steven Vander Ark and RDR Books, respectively, over what they had planned, a 400-page book, ($25). The Lexicon was put down by Rowling in a very emotional and whimpering way as, “wholesale theft of 17 years of my hard work” and “decimating” her livelihood. (Apparently by forcing her to take a breather from writing to put her attention on the legal battle)
Hmm.. so apparently several million isn’t enough to live on?
The judge had initially encouraged both sides of the battle to settle out of court, and had predicted that no matter what his ruling ended up to be, it would open the door for literally years of appeals since copyright law is quite vague in this area.
