Re: JKRowling and Warner Bros sue HP Lexicon

noesy_parker [noesy_parker@xxxxxxxxxxx] said:
Yellow <yell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in

So you believe that once someone has earned "enough" they should lose
their copyright and instead others, who have not yet earned "enough",
should be able to use it in order to increase their income at the
original owner's expense?

An interesting point of view you have there. Do you believe this as an
all consuming universal truth? Now that my boss has earnt "enough" do
you therefore agree I should be able to set up a new company selling
products he has designed in order to increase my income? LOL!


Maybe, maybe not, but I don't expect the boss to start charging me
toilet paper used at work.

The equivalent of JR Rowling charging for toilet can be read in this
story -

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5j9arGtS_k-jLH7uhCX1K3V2GvMfw
http://news.scotsman.com/arts.cfm?id=1629072007

Why does your boss charge you in toilet paper?


As I have said before, it is within her right to sue, but it is not
right for her to do it (a concept which is lost on some here).

So am I right in thinking your only argument for her not exercising
her right is that, in your view, she has earned "enough" while the guy
who has nicked her copyrighted property has not.

To give it its full title, you are jealous.


Money doesn't mean much to me, but it sure means a lot to you and
Rowling, doesn't it?


In this world you can make your own money or you can ride on the backs
of others. Me and JK, like most, come in the first category (although I
am not quite as rich as she is) where as you seem to support the latter
stance which simply makes you a ponce.
.

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