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Note to self: Do not carry charged batteries in the same pocket as loose change. Owies.


The book!Lexicon issue is grinding merrily on. I'm reading praetorianguard's posts on it at the minute. The stupid, it burns like my battery/coin circuit. Please to stop before you get JKR and Warner Bros so annoyed they say 'Right! No more fandom!' See legionseagle tearing their arguments to tiny shreds in her journal.

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[yubsie]

Ow.

And... don't they know the cardinal rule of fandom?

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Evidently not. Egh.

[yubsie]

Only in the HP fandom. :p

[legionseagle.livejournal.com]

I've just posted on it over on my lj. The defence RDR Books have come out with amounts to "No more fandom": they're claiming that in knowing about, not suing and making nice remarks about the HP Lexicon over the last 5 years JKR and Warner Brothers have waived all their rights to enforce their copyright and trade marks with regards to a for profit version published now. I expect they'll lose, but make no mistake; the argument they're running is essentially "She should have sued all of you at the beginning."

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Yes, what is RDR going to care about fandom? SVA, on the other hand, should have know better.

BTW, I'm linking to your post, is that ok?

[legionseagle.livejournal.com]

link away.

[legionseagle.livejournal.com]

Incidentally, don't you think it's rather bizarre that both elanor_isolda and Steve himself in his latest offering are coming out with the "It's not as if I'm aiming to make a lot of money out of this."

How much money he makes out of it is a question of his business competence; that he set out to make any money goes to his integrity.

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It reminds me of Simon Illyan (quoting Ezar?) about losing integrity being like 'a little bit pregnant'.

Look at this; he signs it 'Jo's man, through and through.' Er...yeah.

[ladyaeryn.livejournal.com]

They're STILL fighting this? Of all the stupid... eh, I'm not even going to start.

[legionseagle.livejournal.com]

Talking about "the stupid, it burns" have you seen the Leaky Cauldron news item about a "Harry Potter Event in Belfast, Ireland'? The comments are a sight to behold.

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Yes, I saw it on the feed and was vaguely annoyed by the 'Belfast, Ireland' (which I wouldn't have been if those one down there hadn't dropped the 'Republic of' bit)—that would be as opposed to Belfast, France, then, yes? I've now looked at the comments. Head, meet desk.

[--kali--.livejournal.com]

Note to self: Do not carry charged batteries in the same pocket as loose change. Owies.

Someone at work did that once, and I ended up taking them to casualty because the burns were so bad.

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Ow. I felt my leg stating to get warm, and then hot, and then I went ohcrapowies and yanked the whole shooting-match out onto the desk. I had heard of it happening to people, that's how I knew what was happening.