The spokesman for the Christopher Little literary agency said: “JK Rowling’s reaction is that she is very flattered by the fact there is such great interest in her Harry Potter series and that people take the time to write their own stories.
“Her concern would be to make sure that it remains a non-commercial activity to ensure fans are not exploited and it is not being published in the strict sense of traditional print publishing.”
Having said that, is it not rather more difficult to back up and start protecting your IP more carefully?
This permission means nothing; they can change their mind about being ‘flattered’ as easily as they can change their mind about the Harry Potter Lexicon being ‘great’.
Typical copyfraud intimidation—there’s nothing to stop Eliezer from publishing commercially or as traditional print publishing, if he thinks it can be defended as fair use.
Having said that, is it not rather more difficult to back up and start protecting your IP more carefully?
IANAL, but I don’t see how pre-emptive addition of parodic elements could be a bad thing—at this point it’s just part of the ongoing editing process in which Eliezer has revised many passages, swapped chapters, etc. If a threat had been mailed him and then he frantically began revising it, that might be different.
Having said that, is it not rather more difficult to back up and start protecting your IP more carefully?
This permission means nothing; they can change their mind about being ‘flattered’ as easily as they can change their mind about the Harry Potter Lexicon being ‘great’.
Typical copyfraud intimidation—there’s nothing to stop Eliezer from publishing commercially or as traditional print publishing, if he thinks it can be defended as fair use.
IANAL, but I don’t see how pre-emptive addition of parodic elements could be a bad thing—at this point it’s just part of the ongoing editing process in which Eliezer has revised many passages, swapped chapters, etc. If a threat had been mailed him and then he frantically began revising it, that might be different.