Gone To Potter

The Times reports on the gagging social club that has been made against a number of Canadians who came across early-released copies of the latest Harry Potter novel, Harry Potter as well as the Half-blood Prince. Copies of the novel, which is officially launched on Friday, were lay out yesteryear accident yesteryear the Real Canadian Superstore inwards Coquitlam on the westward coast of Canada. The bookshop realised its mistake, merely non earlier xiv people had bought copies. The Canadian publishers sought as well as obtained a “John Doe” social club from supreme courtroom of British Columbia issued a courtroom social club preventing anyone from “displaying, reading, offering for sale, selling or exhibiting inwards public” the books. Under the damage of the injunction, Under the damage of the injunction, those who bought the mass aren’t allowed to fifty-fifty read their books, as well as are beingness encouraged to furnish them to the Canadian publisher. Author JK Rowling’s literary agent said:

“Copyright holders are entitled to protect their work. If the content of the mass is confidential until July 16, which it is, why shouldn’t individual who has the physical mass locomote prevented from reading it as well as thereby obtaining the confidential information? How they came to stimulate got access to the mass is immaterial.”

It’s at times similar this that the IPKat wishes that he wasn’t such a blackletter lawyer. While strictly the contents of the mass may works life confidential information, the regard of injuncting innocent purchasers inwards the interests of having a showy launch locomote out the IPKat frankly horrified. points out that it’s a flake of a foreign province of affairs since, spell the purchasers may locomote inwards possession of the “container” for the confidential information, until they’ve read the book, they cannot know what the confidential data is. In other words, rather than beingness injuncted to forestall them from disclosing the information, the purchasers are beingness injuncted to destination them fifty-fifty coming into possession of the confidential information.