J.K. Rowling sues fansite; gets moar money

NEW YORK - A judge ruled Monday in favor of "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling in her copyright infringement lawsuit against a fan and Web site operator who was set to publish a Potter encyclopedia.

Vander Ark, a former school librarian, runs the site, which is a guide to the seven Potter books and includes detailed descriptions of characters, creatures, spells and potions. The small publisher was not contesting that the lexicon infringes upon Rowling's copyright but argued that it was a fair use allowable by law for reference books.

Though Rowling had once praised the Web site, she testified earlier this year that the lexicon was nothing more than a rearrangement of her material.

She said she was so distressed at the prospect that it would be published that she had stopped work on a new novel. "It's really decimated my creative work over the last month," she said during the trial in April.

ROFL, can I sue her because reading that nonsense makes me so distressed I want to kill myself?

Sauce

I never did like her, but suing a former school librarian is a respectable thing to do.:roll:

you know your famous when your sueing fans

I remember when the lawsuit was just beginning...

Good for her! It's her work and ideas. Making an encyclopedia online is okay, but publishing it for monetary gain is not right. I blame the publishers for that one, since they asked the fan to publish it and the fan asked them if it was alright and they said yes.

I bet you would do the same thing if someone else was making money of your work.

She has to put food on the table somehow. CrimzonTide

Because her $1 billion net worth can't pay for a few groceries in Europe.

She has to put food on the table somehow. CrimzonTide

If I were her, I don't know, probably use the billions of dollars I get from book sales to do that. But I guess she would do it with different money.

Wow, what a stuck-up *****. She went from poor to crazy rich, and now she wants to keep a vice-grip on her money.:roll:Theokhoth

Off Topic:

Who bumped your ancient topic, Theo?

Because her $1 billion net worth can't pay for a few groceries in Europe. Theokhoth

If I were her, I don't know, probably use the billions of dollars I get from book sales to do that. But I guess she would do it with different money. Sexy_Pirate

I remember when the lawsuit was just beginning...

Good for her! It's her work and ideas. Making an encyclopedia online is okay, but publishing it for monetary gain is not right. I blame the publishers for that one, since they asked the fan to publish it and the fan asked them if it was alright and they said yes.

I bet you would do the same thing if someone else was making money of your work.

the_foreign_guy

Its an encycladpedia not a new story. heck she even used the site before. The Dark tower series has an encyclapedia, you dont see any lawsuits there do you?

[QUOTE="Theokhoth"]Wow, what a stuck-up *****. She went from poor to crazy rich, and now she wants to keep a vice-grip on her money.:roll:harashawn

Off Topic:

Who bumped your ancient topic, Theo?

Don't know. I didn't notice it.

Why can't I vote half man, half bearpig?harashawn

Hey numbskull its half manbear, half pig. Not half man, half bearpig. People these days..

I refer anyone who thinks this is justified to this.Theokhoth

I remember making a thread about that, I agree with most of what Orson said.

She has to put food on the table somehow. CrimzonTide

I hope your being sarcastic cuz she puts a feast on the table.........anyway shes a greedy slore and i hate her, btw good choice options

[QUOTE="harashawn"]Why can't I vote half man, half bearpig?NoobisMaxcimus

Hey numbskull its half manbear, half pig. Not half man, half bearpig.

No, that doesn't make any sense. :roll:

Its an encycladpedia not a new story. heck she even used the site before. The Dark tower series has an encyclapedia, you dont see any lawsuits there do you?

Film-Guy

Nope. No matter how much you or I can disagree on the lawsuit though, she can sue because it's her work. Seems that a lot of the Western world's rules on lawsuits are more enforced though.

[QUOTE="Film-Guy"]

Its an encycladpedia not a new story. heck she even used the site before. The Dark tower series has an encyclapedia, you dont see any lawsuits there do you?

the_foreign_guy

Nope. No matter how much you or I can disagree on the lawsuit though, she can sue because it's her work. Seems that a lot of the Western world's rules on lawsuits are more enforced though.

Stephen King didnt sue the author of the dark tower encyclapedia, I like to think hes better than that:P

Everyone should read http://www.hatrack.com/osc/reviews/everything/2008-04-20.shtml

it was posted earlier and it is enlightening to the hipocrasy and greed of J.K. Rowling.

Stephen King didnt sue the author of the dark tower encyclapedia, I like to think hes better than that:P

Film-Guy

Because he is. 8)

Everyone should read http://www.hatrack.com/osc/reviews/everything/2008-04-20.shtml

it was posted earlier and it is enlightening to the hipocrasy and greed of J.K. Rowling.

Sexy_Pirate

I just posted that. . . . .I'm gonna sue you for copyright infringement!:x

[QUOTE="Sexy_Pirate"]

Everyone should read http://www.hatrack.com/osc/reviews/everything/2008-04-20.shtml

it was posted earlier and it is enlightening to the hipocrasy and greed of J.K. Rowling.

Theokhoth

I just posted that. . . . .I'm gonna sue you for copyright infringement!:x

haha

[QUOTE="Sexy_Pirate"]

Everyone should read http://www.hatrack.com/osc/reviews/everything/2008-04-20.shtml

it was posted earlier and it is enlightening to the hipocrasy and greed of J.K. Rowling.

Theokhoth

I just posted that. . . . .I'm gonna sue you for copyright infringement!:x

But I cited my sources :P

heres a quote it made me lol

"

Moreover, she is desperate for literary respectability. Even though she made more money than the Queen or Oprah Winfrey in some years, she had to see her books pushed off the bestseller lists and consigned to a special "children's book" list. Litterateurs sneer at her work as a kind of subliterature, not really worth discussing.

It makes her insane. The money wasn't enough. She wants to be treated with respect.

At the same time, she's also surrounded by people whose primary function is to suck up to her. No doubt some of them were saying to her, "It's wrong for these other people to be exploiting what you created to make money for themselves."

She let herself be talked into being outraged over a perfectly normal publishing activity, one that she had actually made use of herself during its web incarnation.

Now she is suing somebody who has devoted years to promoting her work and making nomoney from his efforts -- which actually helped her make some of her bazillions of dollars.

Talent does not excuse Rowling's ingratitude, her vanity, her greed, her bullying of the little guy, and her pathetic claims of emotional distress."

[QUOTE="Sexy_Pirate"]

Everyone should read http://www.hatrack.com/osc/reviews/everything/2008-04-20.shtml

it was posted earlier and it is enlightening to the hipocrasy and greed of J.K. Rowling.

Theokhoth

I just posted that. . . . .I'm gonna sue you for copyright infringement!:x

Lol..made me laugh

[QUOTE="Sexy_Pirate"]

Everyone should read http://www.hatrack.com/osc/reviews/everything/2008-04-20.shtml

it was posted earlier and it is enlightening to the hipocrasy and greed of J.K. Rowling.

Theokhoth

I just posted that. . . . .I'm gonna sue you for copyright infringement!:x

Hopefully it decimated your creativity and now your too distressed to post anymore.

[QUOTE="Theokhoth"][QUOTE="Sexy_Pirate"]

Everyone should read http://www.hatrack.com/osc/reviews/everything/2008-04-20.shtml

it was posted earlier and it is enlightening to the hipocrasy and greed of J.K. Rowling.

Sexy_Pirate

I just posted that. . . . .I'm gonna sue you for copyright infringement!:x

But I cited my sources :P

heres a quote it made me lol

"

Moreover, she is desperate for literary respectability. Even though she made more money than the Queen or Oprah Winfrey in some years, she had to see her books pushed off the bestseller lists and consigned to a special "children's book" list. Litterateurs sneer at her work as a kind of subliterature, not really worth discussing.

It makes her insane. The money wasn't enough. She wants to be treated with respect.

At the same time, she's also surrounded by people whose primary function is to suck up to her. No doubt some of them were saying to her, "It's wrong for these other people to be exploiting what you created to make money for themselves."

She let herself be talked into being outraged over a perfectly normal publishing activity, one that she had actually made use of herself during its web incarnation.

Now she is suing somebody who has devoted years to promoting her work and making nomoney from his efforts -- which actually helped her make some of her bazillions of dollars.

Talent does not excuse Rowling's ingratitude, her vanity, her greed, her bullying of the little guy, and her pathetic claims of emotional distress."

It's all very dissapointing to me.

[QUOTE="Theokhoth"][QUOTE="Sexy_Pirate"]

Everyone should read http://www.hatrack.com/osc/reviews/everything/2008-04-20.shtml

it was posted earlier and it is enlightening to the hipocrasy and greed of J.K. Rowling.

Sexy_Pirate

I just posted that. . . . .I'm gonna sue you for copyright infringement!:x

Hopefully it decimated your creativity and now your too distressed to post anymore.

:lol:

[QUOTE="Sexy_Pirate"][QUOTE="Theokhoth"][QUOTE="Sexy_Pirate"]

Everyone should read http://www.hatrack.com/osc/reviews/everything/2008-04-20.shtml

it was posted earlier and it is enlightening to the hipocrasy and greed of J.K. Rowling.

lostprodigy3141

I just posted that. . . . .I'm gonna sue you for copyright infringement!:x

But I cited my sources :P

heres a quote it made me lol

"

Moreover, she is desperate for literary respectability. Even though she made more money than the Queen or Oprah Winfrey in some years, she had to see her books pushed off the bestseller lists and consigned to a special "children's book" list. Litterateurs sneer at her work as a kind of subliterature, not really worth discussing.

It makes her insane. The money wasn't enough. She wants to be treated with respect.

At the same time, she's also surrounded by people whose primary function is to suck up to her. No doubt some of them were saying to her, "It's wrong for these other people to be exploiting what you created to make money for themselves."

She let herself be talked into being outraged over a perfectly normal publishing activity, one that she had actually made use of herself during its web incarnation.

Now she is suing somebody who has devoted years to promoting her work and making nomoney from his efforts -- which actually helped her make some of her bazillions of dollars.

Talent does not excuse Rowling's ingratitude, her vanity, her greed, her bullying of the little guy, and her pathetic claims of emotional distress."

It's all very dissapointing to me.

Why? Do you think she deserves respect?

I remember when the lawsuit was just beginning...

Good for her! It's her work and ideas. Making an encyclopedia online is okay, but publishing it for monetary gain is not right. I blame the publishers for that one, since they asked the fan to publish it and the fan asked them if it was alright and they said yes.

I bet you would do the same thing if someone else was making money of your work.

the_foreign_guy

[QUOTE="lostprodigy3141"][QUOTE="Sexy_Pirate"][QUOTE="Theokhoth"][QUOTE="Sexy_Pirate"]

Everyone should read http://www.hatrack.com/osc/reviews/everything/2008-04-20.shtml

it was posted earlier and it is enlightening to the hipocrasy and greed of J.K. Rowling.

Film-Guy

I just posted that. . . . .I'm gonna sue you for copyright infringement!:x

But I cited my sources :P

heres a quote it made me lol

"

Moreover, she is desperate for literary respectability. Even though she made more money than the Queen or Oprah Winfrey in some years, she had to see her books pushed off the bestseller lists and consigned to a special "children's book" list. Litterateurs sneer at her work as a kind of subliterature, not really worth discussing.

It makes her insane. The money wasn't enough. She wants to be treated with respect.

At the same time, she's also surrounded by people whose primary function is to suck up to her. No doubt some of them were saying to her, "It's wrong for these other people to be exploiting what you created to make money for themselves."

She let herself be talked into being outraged over a perfectly normal publishing activity, one that she had actually made use of herself during its web incarnation.

Now she is suing somebody who has devoted years to promoting her work and making nomoney from his efforts -- which actually helped her make some of her bazillions of dollars.

Talent does not excuse Rowling's ingratitude, her vanity, her greed, her bullying of the little guy, and her pathetic claims of emotional distress."

It's all very dissapointing to me.

Why? Do you think she deserves respect?

No, I mean I'm dissapointed in Rowling. I expected more from her.

Why? Do you think she deserves respect?

Film-Guy

Of course she deserves respect. . . .she wrote one of the best-selling childrens' series of all time and is one of the richest women in the world even after being dirt-poor for a chunk of her life.

But she loses a massive amount of that respect with this stunt.

[QUOTE="Film-Guy"]

Why? Do you think she deserves respect?

Theokhoth

Of course she deserves respect. . . .she wrote one of the best-selling childrens' series of all time and is one of the richest women in the world even after being dirt-poor for a chunk of her life.

But she loses a massive amount of that respect with this stunt.

My thoughts exactly.

In study hall this freshman kid kept talking to me about Harry Potter and told me he was going to bring me one of the books, it was really weird.

Anyways what she's doing is stupid, at least donate the stinkin money or something, I feel sick, I'm so mad I could spit all over the place, the simple thought that someone like that could...!!!! okay I'm done.

I'm going to make it my personal duty to find her, make her hand touch my arse and then sue her for sexual harassment.freek666

I lol'd

[QUOTE="the_foreign_guy"]

I remember when the lawsuit was just beginning...

Good for her! It's her work and ideas. Making an encyclopedia online is okay, but publishing it for monetary gain is not right. I blame the publishers for that one, since they asked the fan to publish it and the fan asked them if it was alright and they said yes.

I bet you would do the same thing if someone else was making money of your work.

ShuLordLiuPei

Doesnt mean she should:| Look back and what I said about someone writing a encyclapedia on stephen kings superior dark tower series. He didnt sue because he is awesome and doesnt need to set his standards on getting money that low.

[QUOTE="ShuLordLiuPei"][QUOTE="the_foreign_guy"]

I remember when the lawsuit was just beginning...

Good for her! It's her work and ideas. Making an encyclopedia online is okay, but publishing it for monetary gain is not right. I blame the publishers for that one, since they asked the fan to publish it and the fan asked them if it was alright and they said yes.

I bet you would do the same thing if someone else was making money of your work.

Film-Guy

Doesnt mean she should:| Look back and what I said about someone writing a encyclapedia on stephen kings superior dark tower series. He didnt sue because he is awesome and doesnt need to set his standards on getting money that low.