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posted by Alli (Sat Feb 20 10, 10:41PM)
The funny thing about the JKR lawsuit is it's really not a new suit. This author's family has been trying to sue Rowling for 6 years, and it's never gone to court because they can't prove she'd ever read "Willy the Wizard." In fact, if they can find anyone who has read it, it'd be a miracle. They're trying to stop Bloomsbury from printing and releasing anymore copies of Goblet of Fire because "Willy the Wizard" is also about a wizard who competes in a wizard competition and wins.
posted by Kathryn (Sun Feb 21 10, 12:41PM)
Wow - don't they know that you can't copyright ideas? It doesn't matter how many wizard contests, wizard trains, wizard chess matches, wizard flying games, etc, feature in Willy the Wizzard - the fact is that their expression is entirely different in the Harry Potter series, the writing style is entirely different, the plots are entirely different - even if JKR had happened to have read the book (doubtful) her use of the ideas themselves are entirely different, and original. They haven't got a hope of winning.
posted by Dr. Rocketscience (Sun Feb 21 10, 2:46PM)
I live in semi-rural Colorado, south of Ft. Collins, so I have to ask: in what markets are movies being exhibited in theaters 3 months after their release dates? Daybreakers didn't last 3 weeks anywhere from Boulder to Cheyenne. And Avatar is don to 2 screens at most at any multiplex - and even then only because one 3D and one 2D presentation.
posted by Paul (Sun Feb 21 10, 5:25PM)
These people should go to TVtropes.com and see how useless it would be to copyright fictional ideas. Everyone would be using everyone right and left and the whole artistic process would shut down from the legal fees alone. It would be like Dicken's "Bleak House," where a lawsuit over a will is fought for so long that the whole estate is eaten up by legal fees.
posted by Tonio Kruger (Sun Feb 21 10, 11:06PM)
I can't help but find it funny that professional writers like Esther Friesner and Terry Pratchett--who also wrote wizards in school long before the Harry Potter books came out--have generally found better things to do than to try and sue JKR. Perhaps it's yet another example how them who can do and they who can't sue...
posted by Brian (Mon Feb 22 10, 11:37AM)
When I was a kid I just knew that one day I was going to own a house, and I was going to design the living room to be a precise replica of the Enterprise-D. I abandoned that eventually, but it's good to know that someone out there is living the dream!