JKR's Little Lawsuit

So JKR is suing someone for publishing a lexicon of HP stuff.

Orson Scott Card's Take on Things

I love Orson Scott Card, first of all. It's always nice to hear someone complain in a literate and well-spoken manner. And the jibes about child-heroes are just too entertaining to pass up.

What strikes me as the real issue is that she, Rowling, wanted to have written this lexicon and someone else got there first. I'm sorry, lady, but that's your problem. As OSC says, write it yourself! And stick your name on it. And people will buy it. Except she can't. And why not? Because something tells me that she was planning on using the HP Lexicon website to write her own. And now she can't because it will be published and protected.

I don't mean to be obnoxious...that's a lie, of course I do, but it's always upsetting to listen to people for whom you would like to have respect make absolute idiots of themselves for no good reason. There are authors who I have more or less respect for based on their personalities (and should probably create an "I Love Robin McKinley's Work, but Would Like to Strangle the Woman" club, based on the number of people I've met who feel that way), but this is different. This is about how you, as an author, show respect for your own work. And I wonder, sometimes, how much respect anyone actually has for Harry Potter. Oh, people enjoy it, to be sure, but who really respects it?