On Harry Potter and the Incredibly Conservative Aristocratic Children's Club
You raise some interesting points, but I'm astounded by how poor your research regarding Rowling and her relationship to fanfic is. There are approximately 23 zillion Harry Potter stories on the internet (see, for example, http://www.fanfiction.net/book/Harry_Potter/), and all JKR asks is that porn be limited to sites that keep kids out.
I can't tell which book you're referencing in your link to Wikipedia; the Vander Ark book, which actually grew a court case, isn't fanfic; and aside from the mention in The Scotsman I've never been able to determine that JKR (or her minions) cared at all about the Lippert "book", except to deny its specialness. AFAICT, Lippert is just a shameless self-promoter, his fic no different than the above-mentioned other zillions of fic also online.
Maybe look beyond Wikipedia, hmm?
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On Harry Potter and the Incredibly Conservative Aristocratic Children's Club
@barnhouse - my beef about the Lippert case is that it isn't obvious to me (and I looked into this quite a bit a few years ago) that JKR ever *did* go after him. See, for example, http://bookpublishingnews.blogspot.com/2008/07/americans-underground-james-potter.html. If that's not shameless self-promotion, what is??
Mostly the gender dynamics of this drive me up a wall. Millions (okay, probably still exaggerating, but I get confused when I run out of fingers and toes) of women and girls write HP fanfic and, by and large, try to be reasonably secretive about their hobby. Some guy writes HP fanfic, conjures up a fight with JKR, and then sends out a press release when she says she doesn't care.