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Re: Harry Potter?
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lugnet.castle
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Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:33:03 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Dave Schuler writes:
> In lugnet.castle, Mark James writes:
> > Re the plagiarism I'd assume that she's read the Stouffer book(s) in the mid
> > 80s, forgotten them, and subconciously recycled a few names such as
> > Larry/Harry Potter, Nimbus etc. If Rowling meant to deliberately rip off
> > Stouffer's work then I'd imagine she'd have paid a bit more attention to
> > disguising the fact!
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> That's a possibility, but Rowling's failure (if that's what it is--no
> judgment has been made, of course!) to recall the source of her character's
> names doesn't excuse her from plagiarism. If I write about an inept wizzard
> (sic) named Rincewind, I'm still beholden to Pratchett even if I think I
> came up with it on my own!
JK Rowling is the highest-earning woman in the UK, with projected earnings
of something *mad* like £170m (US$250m-ish) over the next three years from
films, toy licencing, some weird fizzy pop tie-in and, um, oh yes - 'book
sales'. She can afford to slip NK Stouffer US$10m to forget all about it.
> > NK Stouffer seems to have missed another 'infringement example' - that
> > second initial K...
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> They both stole it from Philip K Dick.
Wrong. Jerome K Jerome (just hope no-one else slipped this in while I was
typing this email!)
Mark
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| (...) Maybe US$10m, but if her whole empire is based on a stolen premise (again, I'm not saying that it is), her whole empire belongs to the person she stole it from, even if she doesn't "remember" stealing it! Dave! (23 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) ***snip of characteristics entirely generic to the fantasy genre*** Yeah, those are some far-fetched claims, to be sure. But at issue, according to the ABC article, is the undeniably similar proper names in the two series rather than broad "I (...) (23 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle)
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