Author filed claim over 'Harry Potter Lexicon'
A approximate ruled Monday in favour of "Harry Potter" source J.K. Rowling in her copyright violation lawsuit against a fan and Web site operator who was set to publish a Potter encyclopedia.
U.S. District Judge Robert P. Patterson aforesaid Rowling had proven that Steven Vander Ark's "Harry Potter Lexicon" would cause her irreparable harm as a writer. He for good blocked publishing of the reference pathfinder and awarded Rowling and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. $6,750 in statutory damages.
"I took no pleasure at all in bringing legal action and am delighted that this issue has been resolved favourably," Rowling aforementioned Monday in a statement. "I went to royal court to uphold the right of authors everywhere to protect their own original work. The court has upheld that right.
"The proposed book took an tremendous amount of my work and added virtually no original comment of its own. ... Many books have been published which offer original insights into the world of Harry Potter. The Lexicon just is not 1 of them."
Rowling and Warner Bros., god Almighty of the "Harry Potter" films and owner of intellectual holding rights to the "Potter" books and movies, sued Michigan-based RDR Books last year to stop publication of real from the Harry Potter Lexicon Web site. Vander Ark, a former schoolhouse librarian, runs the site, which is a guide to the seven Potter books and includes elaborate descriptions of characters, creatures, spells and potions.
The small publisher was not contesting that the lexicon infringes upon Rowling's copyright only argued that it was a fair use allowable by law for reference books. In his ruling, Patterson noted that reference materials ar generally useful to the public merely that in this case, Vander Ark went likewise far.
"While the lexicon, in its flow state, is not a fair manipulation of the "Harry Potter" works, reference works that share the lexicon's determination of aiding readers of literature broadly should be encouraged sooner than stifled," he said.
He added that he ruled in Rowling's favor because the "Lexicon appropriates likewise much of Rowling's creative work for its purposes as a reference guide."
Anthony Falzone, world Health Organization argued the case for RDR Books, said he had not yet seen the opinion and could not yet comment. RDR publisher Roger Rapoport did not return a telephone message quest comment.
Though Rowling had erstwhile praised the Web web site, she testified earlier this year that the lexicon was goose egg more than a rearrangement of her material.
She aforementioned she was so distressed at the prospect that it would be published that she had stopped work on a new novel. "It's really decimated my originative work over the last month," she said during the trial in April.
If the dictionary is published, she went on, "I firmly trust that carte du jour blanche will be given to anyone who wants to score a quick bit of money, to divert some 'Harry Potter' profits into their possess pockets."
Vander Ark, a devoted fan of Rowling, began work on his Web site in 1999 and launched it in 2000.
The seven Potter books, which ended terminal year with the terminal book in the serial "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," have been published in 64 languages, sold more than than 400 million copies and produced a celluloid franchise that has pulled in $4.5 billion at the worldwide boxoffice.
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Download Icon Of Coil mp3
 Artist: Icon Of Coil: mp3 download Genre(s): Industrial Alternative Rock Discography:  Uploaded And Remixed (EP) - CD2 - Shelter Year: 2004 Tracks: 5  Machines Are Us Year: 2004 Tracks: 14  CD1 Year: 2004 Tracks: 14  Android (Single) Year: 2003 Tracks: 4  The Soul Is In The Software Year: 2002 Tracks: 10  Seren Year: 2001 Tracks: 6  Shallow Nation (Single) Year: 2000 Tracks: 4  Shallow Nation Year: 2000 Tracks: 4  Serenity Is The Devil Year: 2000 Tracks: 10  One Nation Under Beat CDEP Year: 2000 Tracks: 8 Talented player Andy LaPlegua is no unknown to the music lap, for he's a vet of the Detroit hip-hop striation LAW, the industrial band Devils Into Crime, and the punk-metal outfits My Right Choice and Lash Out. LaPlegua, world Health Organization is a native of Norway, has as well had his care in the trance market, collaborating with Sector 9 and Plastic Life. But Icon of Coil, founded in 1998, was a long time advent for this perfectionist in hunt of however some former musical part and this clip an experimental industrial route. Christian Lund and Melt's Sebastian Komor joined the band in early 2000 and Icon of Coil was official. Having inked a deal with the European label Tatra Records, Icon of Coil's debut single "Shallow Nation" sold out its 1,000 pressings during the first base month of outlet. Several remixes followed, as well as an EP One Nation Under Beat, which as well lED to a sufficient package with the electro-industrial label Metropolis Records. The full-length The synth-pop oriented Serenity of the Devil appeared in fall 2001. |
Sunday 10 August 2008
Numb
Artist: Numb
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Language Of Silence
Year: 1999
Tracks: 10
Desire
Year: 1999
Tracks: 3
Numb
Year: 1997
Tracks: 10
Wasted Sky
Year: 1994
Tracks: 9
Fixate
Year: 1993
Tracks: 8
Death On The Installment Plan
Year: 1993
Tracks: 12
Bliss
Year: 1991
Tracks: 4
Christmeister
Year: 1990
Tracks: 9
Numb has featured an variety of lineups from its formation in 1986, and Don Gordon has proven to be the one constant. He formed the group in Vancouver, and the cassette-only album Blue Light appeared in 1987. After a self-titled album was released locally in 1988, Belgium's Kk Records reissued the disk in 1992. The Christmeister LP was released on Oceana in 1990, and Numb then touched to Re-Constriction for 1992's Death on the Installment Plan. The Japanese live record album Koro was released in 1996, and Numb's quarter proper full-length, Lineage Meridian, appeared in 1997.
Tuesday 1 July 2008
Miley Cyrus - Cyrus Grows Up On New Album
Teen star MILEY CYRUS has vowed her new album will be a "grown-up" departure from her role on hit Disney TV series HANNAH MONTANA.
The 15-year-old singer sparked controversy for acting much older than her age when she was snapped topless, wearing just a bedsheet, by celebrity photographer Annie Leibowitz for the June (08) issue of Vanity Fair magazine.
But the photo scandal hasn't stopped the teenager from embarking on a more adult music release with her forthcoming album, Breakout - because she wants to be taken more seriously as a songwriter.
She says, "I wrote all the songs, except two. My last (record) was more just meeting me, finding out who I am, and here, it's more getting in depth of what's been going on in my life in the past year."
Cyrus also adds she was able to "escape" by composing the lyrics to much of the album herself, choosing to do so because "no matter how long what I'm doing here lasts, I want to be a songwriter for the rest of my life".
Cyrus' new LP is scheduled for release in July (08) and will serve as a follow-up to her 2007 album, Hannah Montana 2: Meet Miley Cyrus.
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Harrison Ford On Fatherhood at 65
Harrison Ford has opened up about being a father again in his sixties, telling Readers Digest that his partner, Calista Flockhart, blessed him by bringing “a child back into my home”.
Being a parent again has "made me just a bit less self-centered", the ‘Indiana Jones’ star tells the May issue of Readers Digest.
"She's brought a child back into my home," Ford says of Flockhart, his girlfriend of six years, and her son, Liam, who she adopted in 2001.
"My youngest, other than Liam, is 17. It's a wonderful opportunity to be part of a child's growing up, which is always an endless springtime. You see the blossoming and the growing and the nurturing and the payoff."
Ford, 65, says Flockhart, 43, is "the best in the world” when it comes to parenting.
“She's a mother by choice – she adopted Liam before we met, as a single parent, which is an awesome responsibility to take. She's devoted herself to Liam and has done a really wonderful job raising him. I'm happy to now have a part of the job," he said.
Ford also has four older children – Benjamin, 40, and Willard, 39, his two sons with first wife Mary Marquard; and Malcolm, 21, and Georgia, 17, with his second wife, ‘E.T.’ screenwriter Melissa Mathison.
Photo courtesy of Lucasfilm.
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Saturday 7 June 2008
KRS-One Presents
Artist: KRS-One Presents
Genre(s):
Rap: Hip-Hop
Discography:
Peedo and the Luna Empire Mix Tape
Year: 2004
Tracks: 26
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