Stouffer, get stuffed

http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/001463.html

Found it - yet another poorly written vanity press number looking for its legitimacy by an ill conceived attempt to cash in on the most tenuous of similarities to a blockbuster series.

This one is flat-out hilarious:

In Stouffer's work, the 'muggles' are diminutive, alien-esque creatures.  The main character's name is Harry. She attempted to sue based on this incontestable(read desperate) parallel of her unreadable opus to the Harry Potter universe.

The judge was so impressed by her lawsuit (which included false papers) that Stouffer's case was not only thrown out, the dimwit was fined $50,000 for wasting the court's time.

Original news here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/680699.stm


The laughable 'case', if you're into reading the nitty gritty:

http://news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/jkrowling/stouffercmplnt.html


And the result:

http://www.eyrie.org/~robotech/stouffer.htm



Moral of the story:  No matter how desperately you want to believe that the one toss off idea you had somewhere could never have come up in another writer's mind - you're wrong.  And having a very public temper tantrum about it will not only NOT get you the acclaim you slaver for, it just makes you look like an ass.

Poor Mrs. Rowling

http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/012205.html#012205

The greedy, desperate, and underhanded are at it again! There's another lawsuit against the creator of the Harry Potter series regarding the intellectual ownership of wizards named 'Harry'.

I read some of the (again - what is it with these people?) semi - literate, horrible sentence construction of this (again) vanity pubbed writer. I couldn't figure out for the life of me what an adult, wild - west sci-fi flavored ADULT novel had to do with the Potter franchise...

...apparently, no one else can figure it out either.

Plus, these people cannot seem to parse the difference between plagiarism and a derivative work - though neither applies here.

(To nip this in the bud, since I've heard it before: Harry Potter and Tim from The Books of Magic, are both brunette English wizards who wear glasses. The similarities end there. Read before rant, ok?)

There was another, even more ridiculous lawsuit regarding 'muggles' - I'll have to dig up the eye-rolling details for further derision.

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