JK Rowling should keep her mouth shut.
Written by damiende on April 15, 2008 – 10:23 amThe ongoing trial she is involved with only shows that she is greedy. Any other author accept this. This is all a question about money. She wants more money before they are allowed to sell this encyclopedia. JK Rowling is known to be greedy, a prime example of how money and fame has gone to head.
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April 15th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
Well you can’t say she’s greedy because she planned to give the money for her encylopedia to some organization or something. Not to herself
April 16th, 2008 at 12:18 am
Thats just about the stupidest thing I have ever heard, and I have heard some pretty stupid things.
This has nothing to do with money, and even if it did, she would be right to protest. Harry Potter is a work of fiction, entirely formed by the author JK Rowling. There are countless people trying to make money of her success, this is just one of them. Talk about greed, then talk about them.
April 16th, 2008 at 12:51 am
You haven’t done your homework, homeboy. JKR has ALWAYS been manic about loosing control over Harry Potter, and said no to every commercial party that wanted to use chars from Potter universe to promote anything from butter to cartyres. However much money they’ve thrown at her. Calling her greedy is just another easy brainfart, innit? Saves you from actually engaging in a minimum of research into facts. Perhaps you wouldn’t recognize integrity if it painted itself purple, did the polka and sang “integrity is here again”?
She sold the filmrights with a ton of terms attatched. She’s been set on maintaining control on her own work from first day, and never sold out on this.
Remember whose work this is? word of advice - shut ya yap.
April 16th, 2008 at 11:03 am
If there’s anything Rowling is not, it’s beeing greedy. Which authors are you talking about that agrees to this kind of encyclopedia? She’s been talking about doing it herself as others mention, but I guess that after this Vander Ark buisness she won’t do it. I think he’s a genious, and I’ve visited his webpage a lot. But this as a book? He should have had a closer look on the copyrights before agreeing to this…
Also, you can hardly pay attention to Rowling-news (accept from db.no) if you know nothing about her charity work. She gives a lot of money to charity, and have her own found raisings. The Norwegian press is not the ideal place to look if you want to be updated on the Potter world. Maybe you should check your facts before writing the next message on her?
April 16th, 2008 at 11:15 am
_SHE_ created Harry Potter, she has a right to be, what you looter people call “greedy”. If they want to release an encyclopedia consisting of her IP, then they damn well should expect to deal with her on her terms.
April 16th, 2008 at 11:28 am
I understand that someone that creates something should have some control. If they release this book, they should pay royalties for the use of her intellectual property. But for her to go out and deny that is nothing but bullcrap….
April 16th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
yes, which authors are you saying would agree to let others break the copyright rule? I know one author who wont even let his fans write fanfic, and Rowling has always been very gracious when it comes to just that. And yes, she does give large amounts of her income to charity, so Rowling greedy? I think not.
April 16th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
Gunnar Staalesen the author of the books behind the Varg Veum movies. Others has rewritten the books into movie scripts. He has agreed to this and gets nice sum of money.
Most of those who creates things would take this as a form of flattery. As long as they was asked first and was paid.
April 16th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
You should rly check ur facts before u go bablering about something u dont know shit about.
What a crappy blog. I smell envy..
April 16th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
Give it a break already. Take a look at the legal documents(http://docs.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/new-york/nysdce/1:2007cv09667/315790/83/) and you’ll see what the dealio is. Or if it’s tl;dr check out this pie chart(http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/8480/charthh2.jpg).
Dude, 91% of the text is JKRs words. The guy WAS trying to steal her work, aaand steal the essays of Lexicon guest authors without payment to them either.
He asked for permission and after receiving a no, he went ahead anyway. Now he’s trying to make it look like he didn’t know why that was wrong or even why JKR is taking action(after several Cease & Desist letters), despite pod casts and shit proving otherwise. Now after having disregarded her wishes by trying to publish the lexicon, he is now trying to put the blame on his publisher. Dipwad.
The Norwegian journalists here are doing an obvious job of simply copy pasting erroneous and biased information, thus proving themselves lacking the most basic research skills. It is called Google. Use it.
April 17th, 2008 at 6:21 am
J.K. Rowling is not greedy, no.
I’d like to ask some of you commenters to refrain from critzising “the norwegian journalists” db.no is a tabloid, similair to The Sun in the UK. The norwegian journalists of the recognized newspapers do not copy-paste like they do. Don’t get the wrong impression of the norwegian press.
I support J.K Rowling completely in her lawsuit, but I hope that she will take some pity on Steven Vander Ark, seeing as how it was not his intention to simply make money off of her work.
April 28th, 2008 at 6:36 am
your blogpost is a joke.
JKR is not greedy at all. Vander Ark was stupid enough to think that it was alright to steal someones lifework.
HArry Potter is the result of 17 years of work, how dare someone try to steal it?
so you should shut the f*** up, and never write about things you know nothing about again.
tosser
July 4th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
I couldnt give two shits about JK Rowling or her books. However, she is the creator of Harry Potter and the universe of the books and she deserves to get paid when someone wants to use her IP for his own ends.