Thank you, Pamela....
My mind was boggling and you've saved me some research.

But then, we used to have discussions backstage at the Crow how
corrections to Banner Headlines come out some weeks later and on the
inside 2nd-to-back page. [Apparently not a new phenomenon, given the Mark
Twain quote I dredged up the other day.]

'best!
Barb

On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 20:01:53 -0600 pddb{at}demesne.com writes:
> On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 07:35:28PM -0600, Shalanna wrote:
> 
> >  From the Washington Post chat with Stouffer, archived on their 
> site: 
> > "Author Nancy Stouffer says Rowling lifted several names, 
> including 
> > "Muggle" and "Lily Potter," from Stouffer's
self-published books 
> in the 
> > 1980s.  Now Rowling and her protectors -- American publisher 
> Scholastic 
> > Books and Time Warner, holder of the cinema and licensing rights 
> to Harry 
> > Potter -- have filed suit against Stouffer in New York.  This will 
> prevent 
> > Stouffer's work from ever being published again."
> > 
> > Now, do you still think that's fair?  When this lady's work 
> pre-dates 
> > Rowling's?  This is another case of the Warner/Rowling behemoth 
> stomping on 
> > the little guy, and in this case I don't see how even the most 
> enthusiastic 
> > Rowling fan can say she acted properly.
> 
> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/2002_09.html
> 
> It's the third entry, called "Rowling vs. Stouffer," or maybe
> the other way around.  You'll have to scroll down about a screen,
> I think.
> 
> Stouffer faked her evidence.  Her books do not predate Rowling's.
> The court evidence makes this very clear.  Teresa's is the best
> summary I could find easily.
> 
> So Stouffer faked up some books and sued Rowling, and got
> countersued, and I really do not see a miscarriage of justice
> here.
> 
> -- 
> 
> Pamela Dean Dyer-Bennet           (pddb{at}demesne.com)
> "I will open my heart to a blank page
>    and interview the witnesses."  John M. Ford, "Shared World"
> 
> 


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