Potter Court Ruling Gets Berkman Center's Attention
from Boston Globe
September 11, 2008 12:38 PM
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University said today that its Citizen Media Law Project will "work closely" with a new nonprofit that launched on the heels of a judge's copyright ruling involving the Harry Potter books.
A federal judge in New York ruled that author Steve Vander Ark's Harry Potter Lexicon infringed the copyright of J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series of books. To read some recent coverage of that case, please click here.
Right to Write Fund to Back Creative Artists
by Jim Milliot -- Publishers Weekly, 9/10/2008 7:23:00 AM
The Right to Write Fund, which helped defend Roger Rapoport when he was sued for trying to publish the Harry Potter Lexicon, has announced that it is raising funds to help support other creative artists faced with legal threats or lawsuits. The Right to Write Fund will also establish an educational repository and serve as a clearinghouse focused on fair use and other First Amendment issues confronting authors, especially when works move between print, the Internet, film, the fine arts and new media.
Harbor Theater Hosts "Great Slacker Uprising"
On Thursday September 25 the Harbor, Muskegon's only indpendent theater, is holding a benefit for the Right to Write Fund at 7 p.m. This will event will feature Michael Moore's brand new film, The Great Slacker Uprising on the 2004 election campaign. Admittance is free and the Harbor is suggesting a $3 donation to benefit Right to Write. Here's your chance to enjoy the only theatrical showing of Moore's new film here in Muskegon. You'll enjoy seeing this documentary on the big screen and support the first amendment rights of creative artists.
Avada Kedavra: The Harry Potter Lexicon Disappears
by Anthony Falzone, posted on September 8, 2008 - 6:18pm.
Executive Director, Stanford Law School Fair Use Project
Reference guides and companion books about literary works have been a critically important part of literature since its inception, and the right to publish them stood largely unchallenged. We agreed to help defend the Harry Potter Lexicon because J.K. Rowling's claims threatened that right, and because we believe the fair use doctrine protects the Lexicon, and other publications like it.
Judge Rejects Fair Use Defense in Harry Potter Lexicon Case, J.K. Rowling Recovers Her Plums
Posted September 9th, 2008 by David Ardia
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Judge Waves Gavel, Aays Avada Kedavra to Harry Potter Lexicon
From Arstechnica.com
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080908-judge-waves-gavel-says-ava...
By Ryan Paul | Published: September 08, 2008 - 06:25PM CT
Steven Vander Ark's Harry Potter lexicon has vanished and may never be seen again. The handy guide was not spirited away with the wave of a wand: it was, instead, banned with the bang of a gavel. In a ruling issued this morning, Judge Robert Patterson affirmed that Ark and his publisher had failed to demonstrate that the reference text fell within the scope of fair use.
