[cc-community] fan sites, fair use, and Harry Potter

Greg London email at greglondon.com
Sat Mar 1 02:13:03 EST 2008


Someone is commercially publishing an unauthorized encyclopedia of the
Harry Potter universe. The interesting bit was that the publisher is
arguing that since Rowling allowed free, fan-based websites, their efforts
to sell a commercial book were justified.

Rowling has been one of the most friendly authors as far as allowing fan
based derivatives goes. It's a weird argument that the publisher is making
though. If the courts actually upheld it, that would mean that CC-NC would
also open authors up to unauthorized commercial derivatives of their
works.

I assume the courts aren't going to buy that one, but who knows.

http://omg.yahoo.com/jk-rowling-bashes-harry-potter-lexicon/news/7070?nc




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