IGNORANCE OF THE LAW IS TOTALLY AN EXCUSE! YAY!

“This complaint in no way concerns isolated translations published on the Internet … by disinterested fans not fully aware of the illegal nature of their action.”

Marie Leroy-Lena, spokeswoman for Gallimard, the French publisher of Harry Potter, on arresting a schoolboy who’d translated the latest book and posted it online, News.com, 10 August 2007

THE LEAKY CAULDRON OF THE INTERNET

“The URLs below contain scanned copies of original works of authorship owned by Rowling and Scholastic, namely a forthcoming Harry Potter book.”

Lawyers for Scholastic, publisher of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, in a legal filing complaining about the online posting of photographs of the J.K. Rowling book’s pages, Chicago Tribune, 16 July 2007