J.K. Rowling Sues Fan for Unauthorized Harry Potter Lexicon
NEW YORK As the Maker of the Harry Potter books sees it, her forgivingness to winnow might come back to stalk her.
In written document filed for a cause in Manhattan, J.K. Rowling says she feels bewrayed by a rooter, Steven Vander Ark, for his office in nerve to print an unauthorised reference work, “Chevvy Potter Lexicon.“
Ark of the Covenant is editorred of a Web site incorporating a fan-created assemblage of essays and encyclopaedic material on the Potter macrocosm, including lists of enchantments and potions found in the volumes, a catalogue of wizard creatures and a who’s who in the wizarding world.
Rowling informated she was particularly irked that the site’s proprietor and the lexicon’s manque publisher, RDR Books, continued to take a firm stand that her credence of free, fan-based Web sites justified the attempts.
She told she means to print her own unequivocal Harry Potter cyclopedia.
“If RDR’s place is had, it will doubtlessly have an important, negative impact on the exemptions enjoyed by echt fans on the Internet,” she informated. “Authors everyplace will be constrained to protect their creative activities much more strictly, which could mean refusing well-meaning fans license to prosecute legitimate originative activities.”
She supplied: “I find it withering to study the possibleness of such a wicked alteration of author-fan dealings.”
“It’s a very logical literary activeness,” she stated of the mental lexicon. “Like a mention book or an usher to lit, it’s a long-recognized literary genre. … We are non replacing the novel or using up away the market place.”
RDR Books publishing company Roger Rapoport has articulated the vocabulary would non compete with any official cyclopaedia written by Rowling.
On its Web site, RDR Books articulated it was “dictated to print this book for the welfare of Harry Potter fans everyplace.”
It informated it “considers Ms. Rowling, who has defended the `Lexicon’ for age, will love indication the volume just as much as she does the Web site on that it is founded.”
In the past, Rowling held singled out the Web site and its editor in chief for praise.