I’m not biased either way. I love hp books but I love many books and that has no pull on whether the lexicon should be published.

I find it hard to explain why it would be useful compared to a much simpler encyclopidia without so much quoting. In fact less would be more useful, you should have books so not giving it all away but pointing a user looking for info to the proper place would be more than acceptable.

As far as not having quotes he can simply add them no big deal. As far as too fair use and how much verbatim he copied whether it was retyping or cut and paste doesn’t matter. In the end I think the discussion and debating doesn’t need any more done the judge should simply look at the lexicon and see if it takes too much, though that’d take him a lot of work. Have some third party person go through and give a percentage of Steve’s words compared to Jo’s….

@Daniela Can I buy your version of the Lexicon? That sounds exactly the way I would want it to be (besides Jo’s version, of course!). Maybe they could print the spoilers in blue ink under a mess of red ink, so you have to use those little red spy glasses to read it?

Mr Hammer: Please Ms. Rowling, just say yes…

I wonder if Mr Hammer realise how famous he is now – If you post his pic I bet people will recognise him on the streets. With “Ooh Mr Hammer…” LOLZ

BTW I think it is not at all bad Mr Hammer does not have a clue about HP – he shouldn’t because that would mean he may be biased otherwise than just because of the function he plays. He could have been a fan or a Laura Mallory supporter but like this it is just a next case for him. The same with Judge.

@Emily “Maybe they could print the spoilers in blue ink under a mess of red ink, so you have to use those little red spy glasses to read it?” That would be cool. Do any books do that already? But I fear this thread is history to get an answer…

@Daniela “Do any books do that already?”

Years ago I got a book titled “The Eleventh Hour” that contains lots of colorful illustrations to provide clues to the mystery of the story/text. They used some sort of red pattern to mask over “the answers” at the end of the book, and they provided a little plastic red colored spyglass that, when you held it over the page, revealed the black (or blue) text printed on the same page.

I think they used to do this for a number of board games as well, before everything went electronic (I think “Outburst” did this too.)

If they could do it in the 90’s, they can still do it – it just would cost a little extra to go back and print over in red ink!

(and sorry my response is so late!)

Aha!

Found a photo to prove it – I was correct about it being an older version of “Outburst”

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/image/310758?size=large

I wonder what Mr. Hammer looks like… is there a pic. of him anywhere???