Comments on: Why is JK Rowling trying to block the Harry Potter encyclopedia?

By: Meghan

Meghan — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 04:51:00 +0000

Well yes, encyclopedias are really important, but JK Rowling has already said she is making one, so this other person doesnt have the right to make one and sell it, because it is her right to make one first. I wouldn’t get it either if she wasnt making one, but she is so she deserves to release it first as her own, not as whoever is trying to do this. They have no right to take her hard work and try and make a profit from it.

By: MariaD

MariaD — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 15:05:50 +0000

This is an interesting development about JK Rowling. I just found out about it through your blog. Enycyclopedias cover a wide range of subjects and Harry Potter has gained popularity to be included in such general information books. The purpose of encyclopedias is to serve as a good source of information.

If JK Rowling pursues putting a stop to it, this would render disservice to the purpose of encyclopedias. Same thing goes with how a dictionary comes up. I understand where JK Rowling is coming from, with her intellectual property rights and all. But maybe, if she wants, there could be an arrangement made between her and the encyclopedia.

Just look at it from a general point of view: If every subject covered on encyclopedias would put a hold on to having anything published about their topic, it does not serve the purpose of what an encyclopedia is about. Just about everything is covered with dictionary/encyclopedia, to cite as an example.

By: Meghan

Meghan — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 02:48:33 +0000

I think that she has a right to try and get rid of this. She had already stated that she was going to make an encyclopedia and it is the world that she created so she has the right. It is close to an infringement of the copywrite on the books and movies. She has full right to this.