Rowling sues publishing firm, is discomfitted by fan
NEW YORK As the Jehovah of the Harry Potter books sees it, her forgivingness to winnow might come back to stalk her.
In document filed for a suit in Manhattan, J.K. Rowling says she feels bewrayed by a sports fan, Steven Vander Ark, for his part in nerve to print an unauthorised reference work, “Chivy Potter Lexicon.“
Vander Ark is editorred of a Web site incorporating a fan-created assemblage of essays and encyclopaedic material on the Potter cosmos, including lists of enchantments and potions found in the volumes, a catalogue of wizardly creatures and a who’s who in the wizarding world.
Rowling expressed she was specially 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 tries.
She articulated she means to print her own unequivocal Harry Potter encyclopaedia.
“If RDR’s place is taken, it will doubtlessly have an important, negative impact on the exemptions enjoyed by echt fans on the Internet,” she emphasised. “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 meditate the possibleness of such a wicked alteration of author-fan dealings.”
“It’s a very logical literary action,” she stated of the mental lexicon. “Like a mention book or an usher to lit, it’s a long-recognized writing style. … We are non replacing the novel or occupying away the marketplace.”
RDR Books publishing firm Roger Rapoport has expressed the mental lexicon would non compete with any official cyclopaedia written by Rowling.
On its Web site, RDR Books emphasised it was “set to print this book for the welfare of Harry Potter fans everyplace.”
It informated it “thinks 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 grounded.”
In the past, Rowling had got singled out the Web site and its editor in chief for praise.
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