Author Joanna Trollope speaks out on the Lexicon judgement

One of my favorite authors, Joanna Trollope, has written a very heartfelt article on the Harry Potter Lexicon ruling this week. Here’s a snippet:

This is not a matter of that age-old – and impossible – difficulty of the plagiarism of ideas. It is something much easier to define, and a danger to all writers. It is – let’s not mince our words – the theft of someone’s writing, someone’s own words stolen in exactly the form in which their brain produced them. And it’s a theft to which all writers are vulnerable.

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