An artist is stripping JK Rowling's name off Harry Potter books and reselling them to fans who oppose the author's vocal anti-trans rhetoric. A legal expert says it's not copyright infringement.

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[–]Voater 6 insightful - 5 fun6 insightful - 4 fun7 insightful - 5 fun -  (2 children)

So he takes a book that is assigned the identity of a J.K. Rowling book when the publisher put her name on the original cover and copyright page. So this person cuts off the offending parts and applies a new cover to change the appearance. Now it is no longer identified as a J.K. Rowling book and is safe to be purchased as the buyer will not in fact own a book by J.K. Rowling.

Makes perfect sense, if you disagree you must be a bigot.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes but what happens when Rowling releases the new edition and adds her name in the margins of each page.

Cause that's what I'd do if I were her. Some books do that. It's a bit narcissistic. But they'll be a bunch of people complaining about it and giving you free advertising.

Hell at this point it's almost profitable to slip in some "transphobic dog whistle" into your marketing strategy so it convinces these crazies to go promote your book for you.

[–]Caessium 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Your Equity, my client person took great pain to ensure the name of the transphobic author whose name shall not be spoken in this court is removed from their copies of Harry Potter books. Clearly, the charge of supporting bigotry should be dropped from this case.