Cos, don't you think that a lot of her "Ideas" for the Harry Potter books were "borrowed". eg the hidden room at Hogworts is based on a room at Ampleforth College, North Yorkshire. Plus I remember a TV program showing were she got her Ideas from, Did they sue her? No! Strange how some people take a simple thing and once they have copyright on it, money goes to there heads.So why sue? After all one guy said they have done a Titanic theme and nobody is sueing.
2007-10-11 07:51:32 · 14 answers · asked by ? 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
JK Rowling is a witch. She needs to take her money and build herself a fortress where she can hide out and have tea served to her every day at 3. There is an old expression - imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. She is a has been - she hasn't got another book in her and she is floundering. This is absurd. I think the room sounds like great fun. Personally I like to tell people my son got kicked out of Hogwart's for making crystal meth in potions class. Let her sue me. She can have whatever she wants and the tax bills that come with it. Witchy woman! She plagiarized The Worst Witch anyway. Pax - C
2007-10-11 08:15:00 · answer #1 · answered by Persiphone_Hellecat 7 · 0⤊ 4⤋
If the festival is for a good cause, I doubt she'd be after more than a token amount of money when this case winds toward judgment. The reason she sued is to let the world know they can't get away with making money for her ideas.
As for the ideas being hers--yes there was a lot that was borrowed and that comes from her experience. I can't take anything away from Anne Rice just because Dracula was written way before Interview with a Vampire. She borrowed a lot from that book and the legends, both the ones that inspired Dracula and the stories that sprang up after it was written. Just because invisibility cloaks, basilisks, elves, goblins, and dragons can all be found in my old D & D books and Tolkein novels doesn't take away from how Rowling was able to spin them into a world that millions were able to enjoy.
An accomplished author, Robert Heinlien, once pointed out that he can count every plot ever written with his fingers. When it comes down to it, every story comes down to something familiar. Heinlien's greatest work was arguably Stranger in a Strange Land, which is basically the Tarzan story, with Mars substituted for the African jungle--and that amazing story is one of the reasons he is called the Grandmaster of science fiction. It's the twists taken and the personalities an author creates that makes the story new and different.
2007-10-11 08:11:44 · answer #2 · answered by wayfaroutthere 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Err... the people are not really poor. But yes, the organisers do depend on charity ( Of approx $2-10 from families in the area, with each precinct making their own models, so a pandal (model) usually costs upto $6000 , so they are often looking for new themes to use for housing the idol in for 9 days, and take ideas from their donors . I am very much pro-Rowling and stuff, but she suddenly has come on my despicable celeb list ( down where paris used to be, b4 every1 started hating the poor little rich girl). Apparently Rowling no longer needs the publicity or approval now that last potter book is out safely( no risk of boycotts), so she'll sue them this year, although there had been potter-themed models last year too). --- I went to the article, and found that the naive orgniser admitted he had modelled Titanic too. But i doubt James Cameron is that shallow.
2016-05-21 22:34:32 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well yeah she has a lot of money but she has to keep a guard on anything that she has copyrighted, hogwarts is a place that she made after all.
About the secret room, a lot of people have secret rooms and so that is not hers, although a magical one is.
Money probably has gone to her head, but after having a famous book series published, a lot of people would so you can't blame her that much.
I think that celebs and rich people should give more to charity, so the money she gets from suing people should go to a worthwhile cause.
2007-10-11 08:18:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was unaware of this. If it is true, I'm sure J.K. Rowling has a reason besides just obtaining money for suing the Indian Festival: she has led a very harsh life with poverty as a single mother, and I don't think she feels like she desperately needs more. As to her stealing ideas from others, writers always borrow others' ideas. Show me one piece of writing that can't be connected to any other, and I will award you with a million dollars. Most things can be connected back to old fables and epics as old as Homer's "The Odyssey."
2007-10-11 08:29:32 · answer #5 · answered by TheBestAnonymous 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well anyone can have a secret room. I had a neighbor with on under the bathroom closet.
A secret room isn't a copyrightable thing...a lot of people have secret rooms.
But Hogwarts is specific to her and her books.
2007-10-11 07:55:59 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
They may have used the name "Hogwarts" without permission, that's not cool. I doubt she wants money, just making a point I would think, she'll settle out of court.
2007-10-11 10:03:25 · answer #7 · answered by NORM 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
JK Rowling has definately not let the money go to her head. She does many,many things for charity which she does not publicise.
2007-10-11 07:57:01 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Can you tell me about 1 single book in which you can't find a single thing from other books?
Accusing her of plagiarism? Wow, prove it, then! Idiot.
2007-10-11 22:49:03 · answer #9 · answered by Chickoon 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i don't really care as long as she writes a good book to read...besides she has done alot of charity work...
2007-10-13 03:12:14 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋