Anyone else hate J. K. Rowling?

[Sherwood]

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Originally Posted by Arainach /img/forum/go_quote.gif Except that freedom for fair use and parody are essential to copyright law. Copyright is supposed to encourage the creation of artistic works, not suppress them.

Do you think diluting the financial incentive to create new artistic works encourages the practice?

 

[The Actual]

I think it's fine that she is against the encyclopedias.

I also don't think it is about the money at all. I understand that she doesn't want others using her ideas, representing her.

Even if she had lost this she would have won in some ways. By publicly suing she is officially saying "I had no part in this, these are not my words or ideas."


more than anything, I just feel so of "whatever" about this whole thing.
here is a pretty good article about the issue by the way written by a law professor. I recommend reading it.
J.K. Rowling should lose her copyright lawsuit against the Harry Potter Lexicon. - By Tim Wu - Slate Magazine

 

[Xert]

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Originally Posted by Sherwood /img/forum/go_quote.gif Do you think diluting the financial incentive to create new artistic works encourages the practice?

Ah yes, because 1.1 billion just isn't enough of an incentive already.

 

[Arainach]

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Originally Posted by Sherwood /img/forum/go_quote.gif Do you think diluting the financial incentive to create new artistic works encourages the practice?

Copyright is not for making artists rich; it's for ensuring they can make a living - nothing more. For some reason artists and media companies nowadays think copyright should serve to allow a person to make a work of art and profit off it forever. That's not the reason copyright was created and is in fact a sick perversion which goes directly against the original purpose of copyright.

 

[FalconP]

Hate is too strong a word; Rowling is just a terrible writer whose success was sheer fluke. The fewer Potter-related publications in this world, the better.

And yes, I hope Rowling sues everyone who uses the word "muggle" -- I find this word surprisingly irritating.

 

[synaesthetic]

As bad as Harry Potter is, Twilight is worse. Oh, it is worse... much, much worse.

I swear ever since some jerk published Dan Brown, terrible authors have been popping up like weeds.

 

[Superpredator]

I hate people (kids excluded) who read nothing but Harry Potter from 1997 to 2007. I admire J. K. Rowling, and her work is her work.

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Originally Posted by synaesthetic /img/forum/go_quote.gif I swear ever since some jerk published Dan Brown, terrible authors have been popping up like weeds.

Oh man, AMEN.

 

[synaesthetic]

I had to physically force myself to finish The Davinci Code just so I could see for myself why everyone hated it so much. It was like a watching a trainwreck, except a trainwreck is morbidly interesting.

 

[TheMarchingMule]

Hate to be off topic too, but yes, Dan Brown's books are written all the same, just different settings, and they're written so simplistically that they're basically glorified scripts.

And I agree with synaesthetic; it's like people are treating books like pop music, with everybody writing all this less-than-half-decent crap that teenagers with poor literary skills are snapping up.

 

[synaesthetic]

The upside to all this terrible crap being published makes me a lot more optimistic about my own chances of being published. I know what I write isn't terrible, but my ability to make myself write is. I'm such a horrible slacker.

 

[Superpredator]

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Originally Posted by synaesthetic /img/forum/go_quote.gif I had to physically force myself to finish The Davinci Code just so I could see for myself why everyone hated it so much. It was like a watching a trainwreck, except a trainwreck is morbidly interesting.

I made my way through 50 pages of Angels and Demons to placate a family member before confidently proclaiming Brown a hack.

 

[TheMarchingMule]

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Originally Posted by synaesthetic /img/forum/go_quote.gif The upside to all this terrible crap being published makes me a lot more optimistic about my own chances of being published. I know what I write isn't terrible, but my ability to make myself write is. I'm such a horrible slacker.

LOL! Actually yeah, I think the same thing too. I'm going to major in screenwriting, and I write short stories in the meantime. And when I see all these crappy movies and books being published, I think to myself "My God, if that stuff is a major hit amongst the sheeple....

 

[Pricklely Peete]

Yup.

Peete.

 

[Nocturnal310]

I dont understand how the idea of a Rich boy travelling all his life on a Broomstick still amuse people in year 2008..

She's making money by fooling emo & sissy kids..

if u wanna read good fiction then Dan Brown is your answer

 

[TheMarchingMule]

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Originally Posted by Nocturnal310 /img/forum/go_quote.gif I dont understand how the idea of a Rich boy travelling all his life on a Broomstick still amuse people in year 2008.. She's making money by fooling emo & sissy kids.. if u wanna read good fiction then Dan Brown is your answer

LOL!

Wooow, did you just say Dan Brown after what was just discussed?