RE: Re: Has J. K. Rowling gone too far?

From: GROVES Peter <PeterGROVES[_at_]bdb-law.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 15:42:39 -0400

Arrogant? You cannot be serious! It seems to be widely acknowledged, even among writers who might have reason to feel just a little jealous, that JK Rowling has remained incredibly unspoilt by her fame and fortune (as evidenced by a recent hour-long interview on BBC television). Can you seriously characterise as arrogance trying to enforce an embargo which in addition to its undoubted commercial value protected the expectations of millions of children anxious to read the book in their own time? My daughter was furious when a schoolmate let slip the identity of the character killed off in the present volume, before she had reached that page. Copyright is all about being able to control the reproduction and dissemination of one's work, and if anyone's arrogant here it's the journalists who think embargoes somehow don't apply to them. (Even The Sun, not usually a paragon among British newspapers, when offered pages from the book which had been purloined from the printing works, refused to publish them.)

Peter Groves

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From: Keith Tabor [mailto:ket354[_at_]yahoo.com] Sent: 23 June 2003 20:21
To: CNI-COPYRIGHT -- Copyright & Intellectual Property Subject: [CNI-(C)] Re: Has J. K. Rowling gone too far?

• Joseph Pietro Riolo <riolo[_at_]voicenet.com> wrote:
  >
  What
  > does she expect? That 6 billion people on earth
  > will restrain
  > themselves with all might from knowing anything
  > about the fifth
  > book until Saturday?
  >
  

I think that is the point. I didn't read the entire complaint, but there does appear to be some credibility to the claims.

Besides, despite her arrogance, she has developed a product that is in high demand. If the literati don't respect her, the market certainly does.

Keith

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