Jonathan Band’s How Fair Use Prevailed in the Harry Potter Case, an ARL/ALA sponsored publication (http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/harrypotterrev2.pdf), argues that the court supported fair use and the creation of reference works pointing to the work of others. The case, Band points out, failed only on the author’s excessive use of material already written by J. K. Rowling and not on any other fair use point, which the court explicitly supported, as summarized in this 13 October 2008 news release. (This is a repost from a Jan. 28, 2009 blog entry I originally wrote elsewhere.)
