This is just so sad that J.K. Rowling, after all that she has given all of us, including Mr. Vander Ark, must undergo this horrible legal debate just to protect what she worked most of her life for. I truly hope that the judge does the right thing and goes with J.K. Rowling's side.

JK is always right! #1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mark this. As of time of post 78.0% jo 4.0 % RDR/SVA 17.9% IDK Total 223. ----- It's going to be interesting to see how the poll changes.

Give me a break, yet again. She wasn't forced to do anything. She was the one who decided to get herself all tangled up in this pointless case, the one in which she said takes her away from her writings and might possibly make her lose the thread of the plot. She has no one to blame for this but herself.

Raezing I agree with you 100%! You have given so much pleasure to so many people in this world, for that you have our undying gratitude and love. RDR & SVA - You have nothing but my (and I'm sure many others) unbounded comtempt! I would love to be able to express my complete revulsion...but Mugglenet would not allow such language! You go Jo!

I think JKR has every right to be furious about this. And she DID have to do this to protect her work. If she just allowed this to happen, others could just take it one step further and say "but you let THEM do it". That's how a lot of really bad Star Wars books get published, without any endorsement from George Lucas. I'm glad she's defending not only her rights, but the rights of other writers, to decide how their creations can fairly be used. Go Jo!

Go JO!

arent there a lot of other HP analysis books? i dont understand why steve's is so different. of course its JKR's work but i've seen so many other books about HP. why is this one so different? HELP!

She doesn

TOP 10!!!! GO JO!!!!!

GO JO, GO JO, GO JO!

how will the Lexicon book be a "boon to the fans"?

Go Jo.

I am totally backing JKR on this case! She has the right to protect her work, and it's really a shame that it had to go to court. If one writes an encyclopedia over a work, I think that if the author does not want said encyclopedia to be published, he should just leave it be.

nyera12: It isn't really an analysis book. It's Steve's own encyclopedia made by transferring his lexicon to print. I'm sure it has some personal analysis...but a very minimal amount that cannot outweight the fact that it mostly just a documentation and organization of Jo's world.

Sorry, I need to clarify my earlier post ..... OOPS! My Bad! I ment to address "You have given so much pleasure to so many people in this world, for that you have our undying gratitude and love." to Jo. I'm sure you are nice too, Raezing, and no slight ment to you but I think that JKR has had more of positive world wide impact. :-)

thanks apolloslyre (what a cool name) do you think JKR would still have sued if she wasnt planning on an encyclopedia of her own? i feel very sorry for steve, it must be horrible to be sued by the woman you've dedicated to much time of your life too. its not rly his fault, i believe his publishers are morons to go up against JKR.

Ummmm....she might have. Because one of the things she is so emotional about is that it's a bad buy for any fan. An online lexicon is a useful resource...but an encyclopedia written by anyone else than her (whether or not she has her own) is made only of things found in the books already. So I think she would sue it's copyright infringement either way. And if this book is allowed to be published (meaning if RDR wins) then JKR and other authors will have to start cracking down more on the fandom and what it does, which reduces the freedoms we've all enjoyed within the HP fandom.

yeah i know what you mean. shes been very lenient towards the fandom publications

I hope J.K. wins. The Lexicon book has no original content it is all Jo's work. Steve Vander Ark has tried to sue the author of "Harry Potter 6 3/4: The Unoffical Harry Potter Index". He claimed it copied his web site. The fact is that most of his web site is copied from Jo. Steve acts like created the Harry Potter world. Steve's lawyers know that this book is plagiarism but they are doing because they want to loosen the copyright laws. Steve needs to back down.

BEST OF LUCK, JO!!!

We are with you Jo!!!

OOOHHHH!!! now i get ity she didnt want it published! if this book is published EVERYONE will start making a encyclopedia! im dumb!

GO TEAM JO! And to all those who say(maybe not here but on other posts) that we are following her blindly, then I have read what both sides had to say until now and I follow Jo cause she is right.

you tell'em Jo!!

As the muggles say: "Truth will out!!"

It is a scarily true statement that the outcome of this trial could set the standard for "companion" books for other series... hmm. =/ And... haha, HarGin7. (:

As much as I appreciate Jo and her contributions, I feel compelled to say that she's not always right. She is not the best author out there, nor is she always correct. Steve tried to contact Jo and WB about his lexicon and received no response. It was only when he and RDR planned to publish a novel did Jo and company contact Steve. Sorry, but I can't see how Steve's at fault. After all, he went into great lengths to ask WB for permission to utilize images from the movies. I know many of you all have been saying that Steve should have ceased when WB threatened a lawsuit, but think of it this way: Steve's on the diving board, prepared to jump into the pool. No one stops him when he inquires, and thus, he decides to jump. Mid-jump, someone demands him to stop. Now, someone tell me how Steve ought to have "stopped jumping" mid-jump. Publishing books is not an easy business. I'm guessing you can't just pull out at the last minute.

lol jkr still acting like a victim, FORCED to take legal action, no you werent. the only reason this case would start a precedent is BECAUSE YOU STARTED IT please save youre bull for the court, not fans.

Steve should have never tried to make the Lexicon book in the first place. He is a librarian not some feeble minded child. He knew what he was doing from the start that he was wrong and J.K. Rowling has every right to stop that book from being published. He knew that she was making an encyclopedia for charity but he still decided to steal her material and money from the people Jo wants to help. His reason for doing this? Because he claims Emerson Spartz makes a "six figure income" from Mugglenet.

Would eveyone just PLEASE stop being so mean and rude?!! There is no need to attack Jo OR one another.

Ganger345 I was not being rude so quit spamming unless you have something to contribute.

I wasn't talking to you, I was just making a statment as a whole to the comment boards. Your comment hadn't even shown on my computer when I posted. I didn't find your comment rude at all actually. And I'm NOT Spamming!

I 100% agree with Bellatrix_Lestrange, I am completely siding with Jo on this one. Bubblettes did have a good point with Steve trying to contact Jo, however I do not think that automatically makes it okay for him to account for Jo's many many years of work. She has dedicated her life to writing these books, and WE benefit from them, yet somehow some of us manage to completely turn our backs on her when she needs us most. By taking up this case, she is protecting not only her personal rights but ours as well. We've all read Jo's books, we obtain all the information, so why in the world should we buy a book that simply restates what we all know? If Jo wins the case and is able to publish HER encyclopedia, it would be endlessly more informing. She after all is the one who wrote the books, she knows all of the little details that didn't make it into the books, she knows what we all want to. By supporting Jo in the case, we are doing a great deed for the millions of people who read the books, the millions of innocent fans who do not deserve to be punished if this book is published. I greatly thank all those who are currently supporting Jo.

Sorry Ganger345. If SVA wins this will loosen the copyright laws and we can say goodbye to all the HP web sites, fan art, and fan fiction. It won't just be in the HP fandom because other authors will pull an Anne Rice to make sure that the fans won't to to make money off of them.

I understand that Steve put a lot of work into the Lexicon and the book version of it. I believe he's a real fan who probably did try to gain permission before turning the Lexicon into a book. However, his Lexicon is not a book--it is a redistribution and reorganization of another writer's work. I don't believe he has any right to publish it and hope Jo wins her case.

I totally agree with you Bandy! I think you certainly said all there is to say. Jo definatly deserves our support!

I completly accept your apology Bellatrix!

Thanks Ganger345, I really appreciate that! I agree with your comments as well. I really hope that if we can get people like you and others who have posted to band together and show people how strongly we feel about the case, that it will help the situation and encourage Jo to keep going, and know she's doing the right thing.

Go Go Jo! (does this remind anyone else about Joseph and the Technicolor Dream coat?) anyway I just hope Jo wins for the sake of her work, and mugglenet.

well. she shouldnt have stopped writing. its her fault she didnt give us Beedle.. she couldve stopped all of this. but no she is not in good standing with me right now.

Does anyone realize what a waste of money and resources it would be for the HP Lexicon to be printed, anyway? Anyone with the internet can look at it online for free any time they want... why waste so many trees and so much money on something anyone can have for free? LOL I just don't get it! Anyway, I fully support Jo in this. It's not so much an analysis book as it is a "here's what was written," word-for-word, reorganization of the things Jo already wrote... Which is what plagiarism is. GO JO!

I feel bad for SVA cause he obviously didn't know what he was getting in to, or else he's incredibly dumb (but I doubt it). I mean, it's obvious that he can't just go and restate all of Jo's work without getting permission. You don't need a lawyer to tell you that. >>> And btw, bubblettes, where'd you get that info, out of curiousity? If you could give a link? Cause that is interesting..

roonil, maybe if you didnt love jkr so much you would see past youre ignorance! :o

Grind3w4ld: It's not a matter of loving Jo. Yes, we do love her, but most of us have also looked at the facts. It isn't ignorance, we've been following this case since the beginning and finding out what stuff means and have favored our opinions to Jo. Just because we love a person and think she is right does not mean we are ignorant. Look at the number of supporters she has, including those who are objective and those who Harry Potter fans respect. Ignorance means we don't understand what's going on or are not aware of the situation. That is simply not true. Our opinion is just different.

Grind3w4ld: It's not a matter of loving Jo. Yes, we do love her, but most of us have also looked at the facts. It isn't ignorance, we've been following this case since the beginning and finding out what stuff means and have favored our opinions to Jo. Just because we love a person and think she is right does not mean we are ignorant. Look at the number of supporters she has, including those who are objective and those who Harry Potter fans respect. Ignorance means we don't understand what's going on or are not aware of the situation. That is simply not true. Our opinion is just different.

@ Bubblettes: you got it backwards. JKR and WB tried to contact RDR and SVA, and they refused to cooperate. If you read what's available on the internet, you'll see that SVA's conduct for months was manipulative, deceptive, greedy, egotistical, and finally, allegedly illegal (pending final court decisions). I think the only reason high-powered attorneys offered to work pro bono for him and RDR have high-powered attorneys helping is because some people want to use this as a test case for "fair use" copyright infringment law. It is a poorly defined area of law, which very unfortunately, Jo was pulled into by SVA, RDR, and their attorneys who have strong beliefs about loosening the standards by which someone can protect their creative work with copyrights. Attorneys would love to use her as an example because of her high-profile. @ Bubblettes and Roonil: If you doubt in anyway that SVA was guilty in this, please remember he was a librarian who was trained in copyright law as part of his profession, who plastered copyright warnings and announcements all over his work, and who made sure he would get a "you defend me" clause in his publishing contract because he knew he was getting into very hot water. The law also clearly states that ignorance that you're breaking the law does not make you innocent or free of consequences. If in doubt, always call an attorney, which SVA should have done, if he didn't. SVA's plea that he was practically bamboozled into this by RDR has no legal standing, was contradicted by his own words, and sounds like a child pointing a finger rather than a 50-year man running his life.

I was just kidding about that apolloslyre, sorry for confusion :)

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haha coolio....then ignore aforesaid comments. :) im glad to see we're all reasonable here lol.