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The Gryffindor Gazette (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
I just came across a very interesting article by the author of Ender’s Game. In the article, titled JK Rowling, the Lexicon, and Oz he states that JK Rowling, currently suing Steven Vander Ark and the Harry Potter Lexicon, has herself been guilty of creative piracy. Here are the main points he makes: Rowling lifted the [...]
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LisNews (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Insight and analysis into the fan feud between J. K. Rowling and HP Lexicon author, Steven Vander Ark from The New Yorker . Add into the mix, Melissa Anelli, webmistress of "The Leaky Cauldron" who has won the approval of author Rowling. Says Vander Ark: “Melissa has done more to hurt me than Rowling. I can't blame her for liking her status.” After all, he said, Rowling “is God and Melissa is her...
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Savage Popcorn (Free subscription) | 05/04/2008
Orson Scott Card has published a blistering article in the Rhino Times (via) which takes apart JK Rowling's legal claims against Steven Vander Ark and the Harry Potter Lexicon. Card points out that authors use each others ideas all the time and, while the Lexicon may not be scholarly, it certainly falls within the realm [...]
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Parabasis (Free subscription) | 04/25/2008
You can all guess what side I come down on on the whole JK Rowling vs. Steven Van Der Ark controversy, right? In case you don't know what I'm talking about, a guy named Steven VanDer Ark is a big...
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Naked Law (Free subscription) | 04/24/2008
Everyone seems to have a view at the moment on the ongoing Harry Potter litigation between JK Rowling and Steven Vander Ark, the maker of the Harry Potter Lexicon. Ms. Rowling and Warner Brothers Entertainment, the company that produces the...
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CNN (Free subscription) | 04/22/2008
It's a battle worthy of Harry Potter himself. His creator, author J.K. Rowling, is locked in a courtroom fight -- not with an evil wizard -- but one of her biggest fans, a former librarian from Michigan named Steven Vander Ark. The outcome is likely to change the law.
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 04/21/2008
For a time, "Harry Potter" superfan Steven Vander Ark seemed to be living a geeky dream.
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Miami Herlad (Free subscription) | 04/20/2008
For a time, "Harry Potter" superfan Steven Vander Ark seemed to be living a geeky dream.
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Channel 7 News (Free subscription) | 04/20/2008
For a time... "Harry Potter" superfan Steven Vander Ark seemed to be living a geeky dream
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NewsChannel 8 (Free subscription) | 04/20/2008
For a time... "Harry Potter" superfan Steven Vander Ark seemed to be living a geeky dream
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ABC 13 (Free subscription) | 04/20/2008
For a time... "Harry Potter" superfan Steven Vander Ark seemed to be living a geeky dream
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WCBSTV.com: Your Source For New Yor (Free subscription) | 04/20/2008
For a time, Harry Potter superfan Steven Vander Ark seemed to be living a geeky dream. His Web site -- an obsessive catalog of spells, characters and creatures in J.K. Rowling's novels -- was a hit among fellow fanatics. He spoke at conventions. Journalists sought him out for interviews. He was a guest on NBC's "Today Show." But all that changed after a little-known publishing company, RDR Books, announced...
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San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 04/20/2008
For a time, "Harry Potter" superfan Steven Vander Ark seemed to be living a geeky dream. His Web site _ an obsessive catalog of spells, characters and creatures in J.K. Rowling's novels _ was a hit among fellow fanatics. He spoke at conventions. Journalists...
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MSNBC.com: Newsweek Society (Free subscription) | 04/19/2008
What is it about becoming superrich that makes people so greedy—and mean? Last week Harry Potter creator (and gazillionaire) J. K. Rowling was in court trying to stop a former middle-school librarian named Steven Vander Ark from publishing a book called "The Harry Potter Lexicon." He sees it as both a guide and a tribute to the wonderful world of Potter. She thinks it's a rip-off, and a shoddy one...
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 04/19/2008
The ongoing court battle between JK Rowling and Steven Vander Ark - the 50-year-old compiler of a Harry Potter Lexicon - has created a good deal of heat and not much light, writes Sam Leith.
