Plagiarism and copyright infringement are not the same thing.
Yes it is. If you read JKRs testimony she was much more upset by instances of plagiarism than she was by copyright infringement. She wasn't concerned about other derivative works, she was upset by what she considerd vast amounts of plagiarism by SVA.
Unfortunately, the pie chart of doom never made it into evidence due to the vagaries of our legal system (the witness who created it was a rebuttal witness, not the other kind and could not introduce new evidence) so SVA and RDR will probably win, especialoly since the judge called JKRs books gibberish.
Re: Plagiarism vs. copyright infringement
Yes it is. If you read JKRs testimony she was much more upset by instances of plagiarism than she was by copyright infringement. She wasn't concerned about other derivative works, she was upset by what she considerd vast amounts of plagiarism by SVA.
Unfortunately, the pie chart of doom never made it into evidence due to the vagaries of our legal system (the witness who created it was a rebuttal witness, not the other kind and could not introduce new evidence) so SVA and RDR will probably win, especialoly since the judge called JKRs books gibberish.