"Obviously, it was not the outcome we had hoped for or wanted"
So did you hear the news? cleolinda's head exploded Er, I mean RDR Books is appealing.

That's right, you heard me: RDR Books has issued a notice of appeal. Wankas can scarcely believe it. I mean, even Trelawney wouldn't have seen this one coming, yuk yuk yuk.

Naturally, it's reported on various blogs, like Slashdot as well as Leaky Cauldron, and the same arguments from before are rehashed.

You can still refer to RDR Books' website for, uh, information as well.

ETA: Recording Industry vs. The People, which had just recently shared an opinion about the Lexicaon fair use decision, revisits the topic. For those of you who wants to know what {The Common Man} has to say about this.

Also, did you know that the www.hp-lexicon.org was recently named one of the nation's top 15 "Great Web Sites" for children last week by the American Library Association? How embattled.

ETA 2: I just did an ETA and forgot to tack this on. "It ain't over til it's over!"

Info/Law says Slashdot commenters are oversimplifying things, and Techdirt says JKR made her case based on emotion rather than law and says the case is damaging her rep.


ETA 3: sheep gives us another judicial document that I really wish were really real.

Also, a post on rattlesnakeroot's journal commemorates the anniversary of the judicial proceedings, casting Lexicongate characters as Harry Potter ones.

ETA 4: From mariem_1:“It was all very hurtful,” says Vander Ark , who is still such a fan himself that he doesn’t blame the multi-millionaire author at all for her actions... Vander Ark says that he now longs to meet Rowling - purely to say how much he regrets upsetting her.

mariem_1 continues to make my life easier by pointing out where an anonymouse took issue with rattlesnakeroot's comments on the case. A summary:

Anonymous:
Is the lack of reading comprehension (whether willful or not, I have no idea) contagious around here?

rattlesnakeroot:
Thanks for the psychoanalysis. It's so kind of you to study us this way.


And in case anyone missed it, I'm not actually Cleo; she retired from Lexicongate and I'm merely Sugitchi's ghostwriter her subpar replacement. cleolinda was last seen dancing with glee.

And, in celebration of cleolinda's contributions to keeping us all on top of the tsunami of this wank, here's a refresher course of the past year in Lexicongate:

1: The First Report.
2: "How would it benefit us in any way?"
3: "I would never have thought that a print version could be judged differently"
4: "A vast international smear campaign"
5: "Well, unless you find lawyers sinister"
6: The book has been seen
7: Autographed by who?
8: Another wad of tinfoil for your chewing pleasure
9: RDR lawyers up
10: On the third day of Wanksmas...
11: Just a quick update
12: JK Rowling, Defender of Fandom
13: Old Faithful returns
14: Epic burn
15: A slight change of plans
16: "Friends can disagree and still be friends"
17: "We differ so greatly as to be polar opposites"
18: And so it begins
19: Lexicon trial, day 2
20: Lexicon trial, day 3
21: The day after
22: Trial Transcripts
23: “Melissa has done more to hurt me than Rowling”
24: Lexicongate is over... for certain values of "over"