Judge turns on Rowling.

[Park Life 71]

J K Rowling, whose Harry Potter books have been under scrutiny in a copyright trial in New York, experienced an unexpected setback when the judge hearing the case said that the names of her characters and places sounded like gibberish.

 

In an an exchange with a witness, Judge Robert Patterson Jr admitted that he was not a Harry Potter fan.

 

His only experience of reading one of the books was during a visit by his grandchildren when he read them half of Harry Potterand the Sorceror’s Stone, the first in the series.

 

He found it hard to follow Rowling’s “magical world”, he said, as it was filled with strange names and words that would be gibberish in any other context.

 

“I found it extremely complex,” he said - even more so than the novels of Dickens that his own father read to him as a child.

 

Judge Patterson suggested there was genuine worth in an encyclopaedia like The Harry Potter Lexicon, written by Steven vander Ark, that Rowling is attempting to block by claiming that it breaches her copyright.

 

Jeri Johnson, a dean of English at the University of Oxford’s Exeter College, the witness he was examining, agreed - if the reference guide was done properly.

 

Mr Vander Ark, 50, a librarian from Michigan, is a passionate Potter fan and compiled material from a website that he had been compiling for many years.

 

RDR Books, a small publishers that created The Harry potter Lexicon from the wsebsite, argued in court that it was little different to any other reference guide to an important novel and should be allowed to go to press without any interference."

 

 

 

 

With all that money she's getting a bit silly now.

Edited April 18, 2008 by Park Life

[manc-mag 1]

Harry Potter is unmitigated shit.

[Guest alex]

I've read the first one like. That judge sounds thick as fuck. It's not remotely hard to follow. Neither is Dickens.

[Guest alex]

Harry Potter is unmitigated shit.

Correct but they're good from the point of view of getting kids into reading imo. Adults who've read the whole series however...

[Jill 0]

I read the the first one after seeing someone in their 30s walk into a load of people on the way down Northumberland Street because they couldn't bear to take their head out of it.. Fucking shite.

[manc-mag 1]

I've read the first one like. That judge sounds thick as fuck. It's not remotely hard to follow. Neither is Dickens.

 

That's the bit I didn't get-what a shit example to use. Sounds like the type who just doesn't like 'stories' generally.

[manc-mag 1]

Harry Potter is unmitigated shit.

Correct but they're good from the point of view of getting kids into reading imo. Adults who've read the whole series however...

 

I it's unprecedented on that level so fair do's.

 

The films on the other hand are unmitigated shit.

[Guest alex]

Harry Potter is unmitigated shit.

Correct but they're good from the point of view of getting kids into reading imo. Adults who've read the whole series however...

 

I it's unprecedented on that level so fair do's.

 

The films on the other hand are unmitigated shit.

I've only seen the 2nd one. Wor lass asked if we could go and see it The things we do for love.

[Fop 1]

I must admit when she accused the guy of "unashamed plagiarism" I had a chuckle.