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Old 04-15-2008, 05:34 PM   #20 (permalink)
MaxCrux
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Angry Is copying wrong?

Is copying wrong?

Ask Steve! At The Harry Potter Maxicon is complete copy of the Lexicon site. Let's see how he reacts to it.

When Steven Vander Ark's publisher, RDR Books, told him it was okay to publish a printed version of Vander Ark's Harry Potter Lexicon Web site, which is largely derived from work by Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling, Vander Ark accepted that without further question and proceeded with the project. That cavalier attitude is no surprise when one considers the source of Vander Ark's Web site in the first place. When did it become okay to lift someone else's copyrighted material and present it as one's own? That's why, “in the name of scholastic pursuit”, I've made a copy of Vander Ark's Web site to use as my own Web site. Oh, it's okay. I've changed the name of the site and reorganized it a little. My version is called Harry Potter's Maxicon. Different enough, right?

Http://www.maxicon.org
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