"Lumus" (Source: Google)“Lumus”, “Avada Kadavra”, “Expectro Pactronum” was some of the spells that are uttered from the fellow wizards from Hogwarts. In addition, it is certainly fabuluous to be able to imagine the way Harry Potter himself fly and play the Quiddith match with his Firebolt. Any fans of Harry Potter would certainly know all of this and even more whereby they are eager to write the way they feel into website, blogs and some into books. But is this ethical?
Well, in the eyes of J.K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, this is definitely not very ethical as she assumed that the fans are utilising and exploiting this opportunity to actually earn big bucks. J.K. Rowling and Warner Brothers sued the “Harry Potter Lexicon” when they are printing it into books claiming that those people are just repackage the stuff they did with the intention of making money unlike other free fan sites like Roswell, Star wars, and so on (New York Times, 2008).According to Wu (2008), fan guides are not illegal as it shows to us how the other party feel rather than the author itself which set a platform of healthy line between the jobs the authors delivers and what the others able to involve in.
In short, J.K. Rowling are not capable of suing the fansite as there are no such a law or regulation that stated fans are not able to express their ideas and feeling towards their novels or movies as they are not actually stealing or infringe the copyrights of J.K. Rowling. Hence, Harry Potter Lexicon is legally able to be existed and the fans could continue express their views and opinions towards the novels and movies.
References:
The New York Times 2008, 'Rowling To Testify In Trial Over Potter Lexicon', viewed at 12th June 2008, <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/14/books/14potter.html>
Wu, T. 2008, ‘J.K. Rowling’s Dark Mark: Why she should lose her copyright lawsuit against the Harry Potter Lexicon’, Slate, viewed on 12th June 2008 at <http://www.slate.com/id/2181776/#>
Well, in the eyes of J.K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, this is definitely not very ethical as she assumed that the fans are utilising and exploiting this opportunity to actually earn big bucks. J.K. Rowling and Warner Brothers sued the “Harry Potter Lexicon” when they are printing it into books claiming that those people are just repackage the stuff they did with the intention of making money unlike other free fan sites like Roswell, Star wars, and so on (New York Times, 2008).According to Wu (2008), fan guides are not illegal as it shows to us how the other party feel rather than the author itself which set a platform of healthy line between the jobs the authors delivers and what the others able to involve in.
In short, J.K. Rowling are not capable of suing the fansite as there are no such a law or regulation that stated fans are not able to express their ideas and feeling towards their novels or movies as they are not actually stealing or infringe the copyrights of J.K. Rowling. Hence, Harry Potter Lexicon is legally able to be existed and the fans could continue express their views and opinions towards the novels and movies.
References:
The New York Times 2008, 'Rowling To Testify In Trial Over Potter Lexicon', viewed at 12th June 2008, <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/14/books/14potter.html>
Wu, T. 2008, ‘J.K. Rowling’s Dark Mark: Why she should lose her copyright lawsuit against the Harry Potter Lexicon’, Slate, viewed on 12th June 2008 at <http://www.slate.com/id/2181776/#>
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