Potter & JKR was Re: [RQ-Rules] Re: 1. Review of Current RQ Status.

[Nick.Middleton at invensys.com]

>lance dyas wrote:
>> Nick.Middleton at invensys.com wrote:
>>
>>>> peter at maranci.net wrote:
>>>>
>>>> * Harry Potter?
>>>
>>> IIRC JK Rowling has indicated that this will happen over her dead body;
>>> thus, more accurately, 70 years after her death...
>>>
>> I personally think this response of hers is due to a strong
>> misunderstanding of roleplaying by a non-gamer. She has a strong
>> sense of IP on her characters (which she is making hand over fist
>> on), and somehow thinks a roleplaying game is giving others "permission
>> to tell stories of her characters"????
>
>That's certainly her prerogative, but unless she's got similarly strong
>feelings about "fan fic" based on them, it sounds hypocritical to me.

Not really. FanFic is what consenting adults get up to in their own homes,
or discuss with like minded individuals in private fora, but no author has
to take a blind bit of notice of any of it and those who dislike it or
don't wish to know of it can avoid it easily. An "Official Harry Potter the
Role Playing Game", properly licensed and approved, would _require_ her to
endorse material by other writers as being part of her mythology - it would
give other people a stake, however small, in her creation. I can see why on
a personal basis she doesn't want to give anyone else that sort of access
to her creation, whilst having no particular issue with fan-fic (which she
can ignore at will).

Cheers,

Nick Middleton