Given that an incredibly high percentage of what was in the proposed print version Lexicon was direct quotations from the original canon, I'm assuming he went for 2) - around the time of the original trial there were segments of the proposed book knocking around and they were definitely not literary criticism (unless criticism = alphabetising).
If he weren't such an asshat I would suggest that once SVA realised option 1) was going to get his arse kicked by a large number of people, he lived in hope that JKR was not in such an arse-kicking mood. Clearly he was incorrect.
SVA is indeed an asshat - but I have to put the bulk of the blame at the feet of the publishers (who are rightly the ones who were named in the suit). The average person is perhaps allowed a little stupidity as to what is and isn't publishable, but that a group of professionals saw something with the Harry Potter name attached and didn't look into every legal precaution imaginable borders on the willfully moronic.
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Date: 2008-09-08 09:25 pm (UTC)If he weren't such an asshat I would suggest that once SVA realised option 1) was going to get his arse kicked by a large number of people, he lived in hope that JKR was not in such an arse-kicking mood. Clearly he was incorrect.
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Date: 2008-09-08 09:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-09 06:43 am (UTC)