An artist is stripping JK Rowling's name off Harry Potter books and reselling them to fans

[CraddaPoosta]

https://www.insider.com/jk-rowling-harry-potter-artist-strips-name-re-sells-books-2023-1

How does this make you feel?

 

[Catastrophic]

I can do this for free. Just hand me a sharpie.

 

[CraddaPoosta]

I can do this for free. Just hand me a sharpie.

But then you couldn't sell another person's work for $1,600 for a set of seven books.

Silly goose.

 

[Hanafuda]

I agree as long as they're legally purchased and just being re-bound without the author's name, no copyright infringement. Carry on. But this struck me as funny:


"In February 2022, Flom said on TikTok their aim with this project is to "engage critically and give an option to people who do still want to enjoy Harry Potter without supporting JK Rowling."

Still have to buy the book, dumbass.

 

[CraddaPoosta]

I agree as long as they're legally purchased and just being re-bound without the author's name, no copyright infringement. Carry on. But this struck me as funny:


"In February 2022, Flom said on TikTok their aim with this project is to "engage critically and give an option to people who do still want to enjoy Harry Potter without supporting JK Rowling."

Still have to buy the book, dumbass.

Exactly. They aren't buying it for being a unique piece of work. They're buying it for being a derivative piece of work. She got paid the moment the books that are being rewrapped got sold.

It's a terrible strategy to cut someone out from profiting when you have to buy their product to do so in the first place.

The Beatles weren't mad when people were burning their records. All of those records had already been bought. Same with athletes when it comes to burning their jerseys.

Go ahead and burn your own money, fools. AFTER you pay the people you hate.

Really moving the needle, there, champ.

 

[guisadop]

great way to make money off of dumb people.
if you disagree with her opinions this won't make a difference at all to her, you're better off pirating the books or something

 

[smilodon]

This whole culture war around Harry Potter and Rowlings is so stupid and tiring.

 

[Doran754]

Dumb, shes already a billionaire. Who is this meant to be owning, It sure isn't J.K.

 

[mrdude]

There's an old proverb "A fool and his money are soon parted".

I wonder which fools will be down some serious cash soon? Someone with more money than common sense.

 

[x65943]

The idea that somehow you can divorce the artist from the art is so silly

Imagine buying a Picasso and then rubbing out his name

If these people had any sense about them they would stop reading the books altogether

 

[smilodon]

The idea that somehow you can divorce the artist from the art is so silly

Imagine buying a Picasso and then rubbing out his name

If these people had any sense about them they would stop reading the books altogether

When visiting a museum I don't know all of the artists, yet I can appreciate the art regardless. Look at everything through a political lens is a sad life to live.

 

[MikaDubbz]

If they're making money from it, more power to them. I think Rowling was a fool to have ever been talking about such issues that she's really not a part of, as nothing good was ever going to come of it for the franchise or her reputation. However, she's also a billionaire who probably doesn't really care much about the franchise being an even bigger success at this point than it already has been over all these years (pretty sure the 'quality' of her writing in the Fantastic Beasts movies beautifully illustrate this thought). And with that kind of money, it's probably easy to not give a shit about your reputation as well. So to circle back to the original point, who cares if this dude is doing this and making a little extra scratch on the side, Rowling almost certainly doesn't, I mean the books in question still had to have been bought to begin with.

 

[x65943]

When visiting a museum I don't know all of the artists, yet I can appreciate the art regardless. Look at everything through a political lens is a sad life to live.

If a museum presented for instance Hitler's art without a name placard I would feel a little cheated

 

[The Catboy]

Honestly, this just feels like a roundtable way to piracy. Just pirate the shit and edit out the name yourself, it takes like 10 minutes of your time and you are still ensuring JK doesn't see a dime.

 

[MikaDubbz]

The idea that somehow you can divorce the artist from the art is so silly

Imagine buying a Picasso and then rubbing out his name

If these people had any sense about them they would stop reading the books altogether

Conversely, imagine finding a painting that you genuinely loved, but had no idea who the artist was as there was no signature or information attached to the piece. For years and years, you look at that painting every day and feel many things that give you peace and happiness. Then one day, you find out that that painting was done by Hitler. I think in that situation I can forgive and even allow for the divorce from the artist and the art to exist for the person who had appreciated it for so long in their life. Doesn't change that he was one of the most awful people in all of existence of course, but that was never what the appreciator of the art was ever aware of nor certainly thinking about when they looked at that painting every day and got whatever from it that the painting did for them.

 

[x65943]

Conversely, imagine finding a painting that you genuinely loved, but had no idea who the artist was as there was no signature or information attached to the photo. For years and years, you look at that painting every day and feel many things that give you peace and happiness. Then one day, you find out that that painting was done by Hitler. I think in that situation I can forgive and even allow for the divorce from the artist and the art to exist for the person who had appreciated it for so long in their life. Doesn't change that he was one of the most awful people in all of existence of course, but that was never what the appreciator of the art was ever aware of nor certainly thinking about when they looked at that painting every day and got whatever from it that the painting did for them.

Afterwards tho I think if you kept admiring it people might look at you a tad cross

 

[MikaDubbz]

Afterwards tho I think if you kept admiring it people might look at you a tad cross

They might, but if they understood your history with the piece, I would hope they could see where you're coming from. And if not, oh well, at least you yourself would know that your appreciation for the piece never had anything to do with the history of the person that made it.

 

[mrdude]

If these people had any sense about them they would stop reading the books altogether

Why would they stop reading the books if they like them?

I think Lord of The Rings movies are the greatest movies ever made, I liked all the parts the actors played. The actor that played Gandalf - Ian McKellen played the part brilliantly. I disagree with some of his lifestyle choices but it doesn't take anything away from his acting ability and I wouldn't deprive myself from watching LOTR or The Hobbit because of this, only someone with mental issues would do that.

Someone that would stop reading books they loved because they have heard someone accuse JK Rowling of being something she isn't is a retard - and I bet that ZERO people can find anything at all the JK Rowling has written or said that's transphobic or anti gay - they just heard some twat on the internet accuse her of that because they didn't like her for some reason or other. If you disagree post proof (not some hearsay by someone) or some video evidence...but you won't, because you can't, because JK Rowling has just stated biological facts - “‘People who menstruate.’ I’m sure there used to be a word for those people. Someone help me out. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud?” she wrote.

 

[AmandaRose]

One of the people I hate the most is the tv show writer Graham Linehan. He is one of the most transphobic people in existence yet two of my favourite TV shows were written by him.

In life you need to somtimes just separate the art from the artist.

 

[CraddaPoosta]

Conversely, imagine finding a painting that you genuinely loved, but had no idea who the artist was as there was no signature or information attached to the piece. For years and years, you look at that painting every day and feel many things that give you peace and happiness. Then one day, you find out that that painting was done by Hitler. I think in that situation I can forgive and even allow for the divorce from the artist and the art to exist for the person who had appreciated it for so long in their life. Doesn't change that he was one of the most awful people in all of existence of course, but that was never what the appreciator of the art was ever aware of nor certainly thinking about when they looked at that painting every day and got whatever from it that the painting did for them.

The fact remains that Ms. Rowling has still done absolutely NOTHING wrong and has said absolutely NOTHING that is not scientifically, factually true.

Not once did she denigrate anyone in her books. The only people who did that shit were her paralells to the Nazis, the Death Eaters, who saw Mudbloods as lesser wizards, and humans as not even human at all. And what happened to them?

JK Rowling did absolutely nothing wrong. Just because there are folks out there suffering from gender dysphoria doesn't mean that she is a bad person for saying that only women menstruate. This is demonstrably true, and if this scientific fact triggers you, YOU just might be the problem, not her.