Rowling Testifies Against Lexicon Author

News Type: Event — Seeded on Wed Apr 16, 2008 10:59 AM EDT

Article Source: The New York Times

arts, law, books, court, harry, potter, encyclopedia, rowling, lexicon

But she had flown to New York from her Edinburgh home for the occasion, she testified, because she felt so strongly about someone else turning 17 years of her labor on the Harry Potter series into an encyclopedia.

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Miguel

I found the article pretty interesting. I wonder if she has a case or not. Personally, I can totally understand her feelings, but it sounds like she may not win this one... She should have come out with her own encyclopedia faster. Anyways, the real die hard fans are probably going to buy whatever encyclopedia she will come out with... even if this unofficial one is out first.

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#1 - Wed Apr 16, 2008 11:01 AM EDT

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juggler

A thinly disguised power grab on her part, and beneath the triumph of her writing.

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#2 - Wed Apr 16, 2008 11:26 AM EDT

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Miguel

Yeah this is starting to look like a desperate move on Ms. Rowling's part. I mean come on, what next? Is she going to go after him for publishing a book about Harry Potter locations on the premise that she could have written a better one?

This is sad because she is loosing some respect from some member of the community. It's a little weird because she sounds like a mother who can't let her child have their own lives (keeping the analogy of her books being her child)... she has to let go one day!

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#3 - Thu Apr 17, 2008 12:25 PM EDT

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