: On the third day of Wanksmas...
1) Stanford Law group enters fray over Harry Potter guide.
2) So the GVSU talk was last night. From various posters: attendee accounts, plus video.
An amusing note from corellianscribe: "Much to my eternal amusement, he plopped down behind me and asked if I was from journalfen. Translation: was I one of the crazies from Fandom Wank?" But furthermore: SVA came off reasonably well. RDR... not so much. ( Like he'd just been told Christmas was coming twice this year )
Also, regarding the Star Wars PDF precedent: ( You can do that? )
ETA: RDR Books updates. Again. Key sentence, IMO: "It simply is not the case that authors can exploit copyright law to prevent analysis and commentary on their work."
ETA 2: From![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif)
aewgliriel: "Someone I know over on Jedi Council Forums [corellianscribe?] is/was involved with the forum on this, and here's what they had to say." Key section: "And, at the end of the talk, a few things became very clear: a) RDR is full of crap and mostly blowing a lot of hot air around. Also, they're not very nice. b) SVA is a nice guy who may or may not ever pull his head out of encyclopedia mode, but he has terrible judgment when it comes to picking publishers. c) 'Cousin Vinny' really doesn't know what he's talking about. At all." Also, she would love to comment here--where's the request-an-account place again?
Speaking of SVA picking publishers, a few things I'm hearing from elanor, take it as you will: ( Debunking misconceptions )
ETA 3: Viafortheloveof22: TLC's Melissa's version of the Lexicon hosting situation.
1) Stanford Law group enters fray over Harry Potter guide.
2) So the GVSU talk was last night. From various posters: attendee accounts, plus video.
An amusing note from corellianscribe: "Much to my eternal amusement, he plopped down behind me and asked if I was from journalfen. Translation: was I one of the crazies from Fandom Wank?" But furthermore: SVA came off reasonably well. RDR... not so much. ( Like he'd just been told Christmas was coming twice this year )
Also, regarding the Star Wars PDF precedent: ( You can do that? )
ETA: RDR Books updates. Again. Key sentence, IMO: "It simply is not the case that authors can exploit copyright law to prevent analysis and commentary on their work."
ETA 2: From
aewgliriel: "Someone I know over on Jedi Council Forums [corellianscribe?] is/was involved with the forum on this, and here's what they had to say." Key section: "And, at the end of the talk, a few things became very clear: a) RDR is full of crap and mostly blowing a lot of hot air around. Also, they're not very nice. b) SVA is a nice guy who may or may not ever pull his head out of encyclopedia mode, but he has terrible judgment when it comes to picking publishers. c) 'Cousin Vinny' really doesn't know what he's talking about. At all." Also, she would love to comment here--where's the request-an-account place again?Speaking of SVA picking publishers, a few things I'm hearing from elanor, take it as you will: ( Debunking misconceptions )
ETA 3: Via
fortheloveof22: TLC's Melissa's version of the Lexicon hosting situation.