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"Running Over Fair Use Like The Hogwarts Express?"

By Marty Schwimmer

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WSJ.Com: Running Over Fair Use Like The Hogwarts Express?:

"Warner and Rowling filed a lawsuit against RDR Books, a small publishing house in Michigan, over its plans to publish a print edition of The Harry Potter Lexicon website, a compendium of all things Harry that looks, well, rather daunting to neophytes like us. In December Stanford Law School?s Anthony Falzone ? a former Bingham McCutchen litigator and the heir apparent to Lawrence Lessig?s Fair Use Project ? agreed to help defend RDR Books against the suit.

Last month, Wu defended RDR in another Slate piece, writing, ?There is a necessary and healthy line between what the initial author owns and what follow-on, or ?secondary,? authors get to do, and Rowling is running over that line like the Hogwarts Express.?

Full post as published by Trademark Blog on February 11, 2008 (boomark / email).

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