Harry Potter author JK Rowling has filed a lawsuit against the New York Daily News after the tabloid published minor excerpts from her latest book.
The British author and her US publisher, Scholastic, said they had filed the suit in New York seeking tens of millions of dollars in damages.
Because, as we know, in the same way that downloading Metallica's music has bankrupted them, so too publishing minor excerpts from the new Harry Potter book will bankrupt Rowling and Scholastic, so that the only way they can become multi-millionaires from the book is through lawsuits like this. Uh-huh. How minor were these excerpts, anyway? By putting the words "Harry Potter" together in that order, I could be said to have excerpted the book myself, as I'm sure that combination of words must recur throughout it dozens of times. Look on my brazen flouting of copyright, ye mighty, and despair!
Article comments