Love the Harry Potter books

Rowling can publish her own lexicon if she wants. In the meantime, I suggest she roll around in her giant pile of money and leave everyone alone.

If Vander Ark has not licensed the rights, he cant publish. Rowling owns the “Harry Potter Universe” just like George Lucas owns the “Star Wars Universe”, and Paramount owns the “Star Trek Uiverse”. I’m sure lots of people would love to be able to make money off somebody else’s creativity, but stealking is stealing even if you steal from the richest woman in the world. The good news is, she can afford a good muggle lawyer.

Well, you wouldn’t want the poor woman to become destitute would you??

If corporations are allowed to patent corporate colors, symbols and the like then Rowling does have a case. The encycopedia in question uses her terminology and characters and any expression thereof should be awarded to her not some other entity no matter what representation is used. If a book is to be published to define her work she should own the rights. Bottom line folks it is her work period.

Yes, stealking is stealing

If corporations are allowed to patent colors, symbols etc. then Rowlings should be allowed to protect her vested interests as well. After all she is the founder of the Harry Potter phenom. Does this guy have publishing rights for a dictionary that came from her story line and characters? I would hope not. Microsoft defends its turf as do many other companies and corporations from spin offs. The bottom line is this guy is trying to find a cash cow and he should give the original author a cut from the proceeds if granted the rights to the dictionary. If the gentleman wishes exclusive rights then publish something of his OWN and not the works of others.

The article does not give us enough information to determine what this is all about. If Mr. Vander Ark were to make a book about the author that is one thing but to capitalize on her inventions without royalties is entirely another. What if he did a lexicon of Christopher Waskey? Who would buy that? He must use the hard thought work and effort of the Rawling enterprise to make his money and he needs to share with the inventor.

J.R. Rowling has every right to stop this person. If it wasn’t for her we would have never heard of Harry Potter. No one has the right to come in after the fact and claim anything of what someone else has created.

The creation of Harry Potter and all of his world created by J.K. Rowling belongs solely to J.K. Rowling and to no one else. If it were mine, regardless of how much money I had made, I’d be very angry if anyone else was allowed to lay claim to anything I had created and be able to profit from it without my explicit permission. Apparently, Mr. Vander Ark didn’t obtain J.K. Rowling’s permission to write the book which was stupid on his part. My guess is that Steven Vander Ark would sue Mrs. Rowling is if the tables were turned and he had created Harry Potter. How much money J.K. Rowling has made off of her creation is irrelevant. The issue is whether or not it belongs to her. It does.

I would like a Harry Pottern encyclopedia……….written by J.K. herself because only she knows what the true meanings would be. Anyone else is just guessing. I would not purchase it from anyone else.

Only J.K. has the right to publish an encyclopedia on Harry Potter. Besides, she is the only one who knows the true meanings of what would be in there. Copyright is copyright, no matter how rich the creative owner of that copyright is.

Ms. Rowling has every right to keep her work in Total control. This series was her brain child. Her ideas. Her fantastic imagination and setting forth on paper brilliantly. She has taken so many of us on a great journey. I can see so vividly in my mind all the stories without visualiztion. I will say the movies did some justice to the books. Yet my mind went on a better trip with J.K. Rowlings lead.
Thank you J>K> Rowling. Money is not the issue. Creativity is.

I would love to see the lexicon and yes I would definitely buy it. Rowling doles out her Harry Potter books so stingily that readers are extremely frustrated. If she had put out the lexicon that would be different. I applaud his effort and creativity to fill a need and want for more Harry Potter material. If she isn’t going to write it then she should step aside and let someone else get on with it. Maybe they could split the costs and profits 50/50 since they were originally her ideas but he has done all the work on creating the product. Probably it’s her publisher who’s mad that he has a different publisher and they don’t get a cut. Anyway, he should definitely be allowed to release it and make a profit. She should definitley get a share, but not her publishers who are behind the stingy holding back of Potter material she’s written.

Who cares!

I think they should make a deal because Mr Ark is filling a need. The Potter books have been doled out with the stinginess of a Dickens character doling out porridge to orphans. If she’s only going to put out one book every few years then she ought to step aside and let someone else get on with it and just take a share of the profits.

If the issue is giving J.K. Rowling credit for her imagination, then I would suggest that the encyclopedia give her credit for her charaters and storyline every step of the way. If the issue is licensing rights then that is another story.

It’s quite astonishing the rationalization folks employ to justify their notions of what is fair.

First, why does it matter how much money Ms. Rowling has? If she was less successful, would using her copyrighted material be wrong? Is it only ok because she is rich? Heck, since she’s rich, let’s just go into her house and take her stuff! Those darn rich authors, how dare they work hard and be successful. They don’t deserve the same rights as poor struggling authors.

Second, how does it matter that she does not publish enough material to satisfy some people? That’s certainly not a reason to justify using her work for personal gain. She can publish as seldom of as often as she sees fit. It’s her property. No one has the right to publish her property (and make money from it to boot) just because some people are not getting enough of it.

It’s also worth noting that there were 7 Harry Potter books published in 10 years, but the later books were about 2 years apart, probably owing to Ms. Rowling’s success and no doubt her work on the films (and the fact that there is generally about 2 years between films). The time of the first film coincides with the start of longer times between novels. This is not that different from a lot of other successful authors in the Sci/Fi Fantasy genre. Since 1999, Neil Stephenson has published 4 novels with one more coming later this year. Neil Gaimon has about 9 novels and collections since 1990. Gene Wolfe has about 9 novels and collections since 1999. So maybe J.K. is not really that stingy….