Fake 'Harry Potter' Books Written In China
This makes me think that it's a shame we'll never have a modern equivalent of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, because nothing new will ever enter the public domain after the 1998 copyright act.
I lived with a guy who downloaded "Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince" as a PDF about two months before the book's actual release.
He read all 600 pages, then said it was probably fake, but still a great read.
So in China somebody actually gets paid for writing fanfiction.
I have to say I like the guy that just printed the lord of the rings with the names of the main characters changed to harry potter characters. He truly understands how the global economy works. He is like one of those contractors that charge you 1000 hours worth of work for dirt cheap price, and you think you are getting a great deal until you realise they delivered some GPLd software with the license terms removed and the file names changed.
The last book makes me wonder if the story is told just by Harry's point of view, as in no omniscient narrator. It could make things interesting.
This article beats the superhero's schoolbags by far.
Hmm this sort of shows what copyright laws do... cut out a lot of crap, but you lose some good stuff too.
This is the best Harry Potter related article EVER! Chinese HP illegal extra plots...