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@dolus cherrying Canada
>The supreme court of British Columbia issued a court order preventing anyone from “displaying, reading, offering for sale, selling or exhibiting in public” their books. J. K. Rowling’s legal advisers said that the author was entitled to prevent buyers from reading their own books even though they had not broken the law.
“The fact is that this is property that should not have been in their possession,” said Neil Blair, a legal specialist for Christopher Little, the author’s literary agent. “Copyright holders are entitled to protect their work. If the content of the book is confidential until July 16, which it is, why shouldn’t someone who has the physical book be prevented from reading it and thereby obtaining the confidential information? How they came to have access to the book is immaterial.”-
@fl0wn And there are people who worship this grape. She does not give one single Fluffle Puff about her fans. Never mind that they are the whole reason she's so well off now after being dirt poor.
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Reposting because RMS dared me. Don't Pay For Harry Potter Books, Movies, Gear 2005-07-17 (Why have this campaign?) On July 13, 2005, Ms Rowling got an injunction ordering various Canadians not to read Harry Potter books that were sold to them through a mistake by the publisher. Read that article, then don't buy any Harry Potter books (or pay for anything from the Rowling business empire). It's even nastier; see further information. I don't say you shouldn't read these books. That I leave to the author. I only urge you not to pay for them. If you wish to read one, be patient; you will meet someone that has a copy you can borrow. You can also read it in the public library. Even better, read something else—there are plenty of other books just as good, some (dare one suggest) even better. Ebooks make the danger of such injunctions even more sinister. In 2009, Amazon remotely erased thousands of ebooks which were copies of the book 1984, by…
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@rw I agree with him that READING the books is fine. Just never pay for a new copy. Rowling does not deserve another cherrying penny.
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@dolus I agree with him as well, but I think it applies to a lot of other writers too. It's a matter of copyright and principles.
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@rw A lot of the physical books I buy happen to be used, but rarely has anything to do with how I feel about the author... In Rowling's case, it would be. Personally, I never found HP that interesting, so that's a non-issue for me.
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@rw @dolus grape has gone off the rails, nobody dares professionally cross her so editing has gone down the toilet and she makes stupid changes/additions like kiwiy white girl retroactively becoming a bananay black girl.
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@cyberpotato @rw Not to mention making an old Wizard gay post mortem.
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@dolus Maybe the gravedigger diddled him
Saturday, 18-Feb-17 16:37:20 UTC from web
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