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OtterySt.Catchpole · 01-17-2008, 04:57 AM

Technically it is theft of intellectual property because looking at it from the most basic pov you have to admit, an encyclopedia doesn't 'create' or 'reveal' anything new it just states old facts that come from the books which are a copyrighted work. Try doing it with any other book and without the author's permission and you'd probably get sued ... like an Encyclopedia of Seuss or Tolkien these things require authorial consent ... or whoever owns the copyright.

Can't they patiently wait for Jo to die and then fifty years after? Or is it more ... *ponders* I don't think copyright should be extended too much past the fifty years after the death of the author ... that's just greedy and I'm writing a sequel to Romeo and Juliet I don't need legal problems from the Shakespeares ...

If it was a book about what they thought about the Potter universe (like all those other unathorized books Jo has let slide) then it would be okay, but they're not adding anything or creating anything just compiling the author's stuff ... which while nice and polite is wrong. It's like if Fanfic writers started saying they'd publish their works for money ... It's theft. We didn't create Harry Potter ... we can't steal her ideas ... (though I think we'd have more ground to stand on based on original invention and plots ...) but it's still Jo's universe and thats unarguable ... sure she didn't invent phoenixes (I did actually I should sue) but truth is she did invent Fawkes and gave him all the qualities he has and blah blah blah thus making a new character ... which is to say nothing of Flying Ford Anglias, and danglias ... like those flying brains ...

In conclusion, *everyone is sleeping now* (putting you all to sleep was my good deed for the ~~day~~ present lifetime) Jo created something beautiful and wonderful and *giggles* magical we shouldn't pay that back by stealing her rights as a creator ... (speaking of creators rights *has his podium taken from him*).

Why the very notion of anyone editing one of my works ...

appalling ...

ironically enough I always reference the Lexicon ...

but its still wrong ... stealing is stealing even if its just thoughts ... perhaps the worst theft of all.

01-17-2008, 04:57 AM	#14 (permalink)
OtterySt.Catchpole SS Featured Artist DA Poet Rupert is My Man! SS100 Triumphant Aethonan Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: The Wicked House Posts: 18,909 Hogwarts RPG Name: Ottery St. Catchpole Gryffindor Third Year	It's wrong I tell you ... it's so wrong ... cries Paris & Kellybear r luv :Read Otty 's fics:Gone With the Wind:I♥Rupert Technically it is theft of intellectual property because looking at it from the most basic pov you have to admit, an encyclopedia doesn't 'create' or 'reveal' anything new it just states old facts that come from the books which are a copyrighted work. Try doing it with any other book and without the author's permission and you'd probably get sued ... like an Encyclopedia of Seuss or Tolkien these things require authorial consent ... or whoever owns the copyright. Can't they patiently wait for Jo to die and then fifty years after? Or is it more ... ponders I don't think copyright should be extended too much past the fifty years after the death of the author ... that's just greedy and I'm writing a sequel to Romeo and Juliet I don't need legal problems from the Shakespeares ... If it was a book about what they thought about the Potter universe (like all those other unathorized books Jo has let slide) then it would be okay, but they're not adding anything or creating anything just compiling the author's stuff ... which while nice and polite is wrong. It's like if Fanfic writers started saying they'd publish their works for money ... It's theft. We didn't create Harry Potter ... we can't steal her ideas ... (though I think we'd have more ground to stand on based on original invention and plots ...) but it's still Jo's universe and thats unarguable ... sure she didn't invent phoenixes (I did actually I should sue) but truth is she did invent Fawkes and gave him all the qualities he has and blah blah blah thus making a new character ... which is to say nothing of Flying Ford Anglias, and danglias ... like those flying brains ... In conclusion, everyone is sleeping now (putting you all to sleep was my good deed for the ~~day~~ present lifetime) Jo created something beautiful and wonderful and giggles magical we shouldn't pay that back by stealing her rights as a creator ... (speaking of creators rights has his podium taken from him). Why the very notion of anyone editing one of my works ... appalling ... ironically enough I always reference the Lexicon ... but its still wrong ... stealing is stealing even if its just thoughts ... perhaps the worst theft of all. __________________