Writing in today's New York Times, Joe Nocera picks up an old story about Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling suing RDR Books for copyright infringement because it was about to publish Steven Vander Ark's Harry Potter Lexicon
link here. The publisher is getting an assist from Anthony Falzone of the Stanford Law School's Fair Use Project, which was founded by Larry Lessig, allowing Nocera to do a riff on the growth of criticism of copyright litigation.
It is a cheering thought that some of the criticism of intellectual property abuse is finally making it to the main stream media. We will need a lot more of that if we are to get the laws amended in a reasonable way, promoting innovation rather than stifling it.