Orson Scott Card doesn't like JK Rowling...

[thecesspit]

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[steer]

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Dosh.

I'd sue Orson Scott Card for emotional damage suffered after reading Children of the Mind.

[d_floorlandmine]

The Chinese authors get my applause!

[undyingking]

That came out years ago, I thought she'd already sued them at the time?

[thecesspit]

Oh yes, it's old news, but the book title and the audacity amused me.

[makyo]

Orson Scott Card has said some pretty bonkers (and sometimes objectionably so) things over the years, but I'm inclined to agree with him on this point. Although the Nancy Stouffer plagiarism dispute which he mentions at one point was largely without merit (to the point where it looked fraudulent in some places, I believe).

[thecesspit]

Yep, a quick look see implies that Ms Stouffer made up a whole bunch of stuff while preparing her court case to make it look more plausible.

[onebyone]

OSC is full of shit. Assuming no settlement, the judge will decide whether or not the lexicon contains sufficient original creative work to justify fair use of Rowling's intellectual property, and possibly also whether some of the use was authorised by Rowling and/or Warner