Commercial image rights only exist in certain societies where they have an explicit legal classification. They also do not extend to all images of a given celebrity, a fact that tabloids exploit, but only to instances where the third party is using an image without consent to generate profit. You can't slap a celebrity's face on a billboard next to an ad for your new skin lotion, but you can publish a topless photo of said celebrity without infringing anything.

Mostly I brought up the issue of non-impersonation Polyjuice because it was earlier stated that taking Polyjuice of someone is inherently a violation of that person's rights regardless of intent or the actions taken while Polyjuiced. So I mentioned some instances where intent clearly does dictate the extend of the violation, if any.

 

Seems to me that "Polyjuice rights" have closer resemblance to DNA rights not image rights.

 

Polyjuice obviously does not work solely (or even primarily) off of DNA.

 

That was not at all what I was saying. I wasn't saying anything about how Polyjuice works. I was saying that its legal status should be more similar to that of DNA than your image. Basically you're creating a temporary copy of a person's body aka a clone.

 

What about the need for the victim's hair? Or some other part of their body?

 

That is how the magic knows which person to turn into.

 

Hair doesnt even have a full copy of DNA in it, only mitacondrial DNA and depending on how long/old the hair is, that can be only partial.

So its obviously not copying DNA from hair.

 

Why does the fandom hate Dumbledore? Why is there so much Dumbledore bashing? Yes Dumbledore was manipulative but it was for the benefit of everyone, and his actions played a huge role in Voldemort's defeat, even if he wasn't around personally to see it. So yes, he was manipulative, but definitely a good guy. Dumbledore is fucking awesome and how they fail to see it is beyond me.

 

I really wasn't trying to somehow bash canon. I'm writing a story that has a character getting on the train and killing one of the students and I just wanted to know if canon has ever showed us that this is not possible.

The main reason I'm not completely sure is that we have never seen any of the parents get on the train even to somehow help situate their children on the train(parents often do this).

So yeah common sense tells me that there could be wards protecting the train or its an unspoken rule that adults other than the professors shouldn't go in(although the dementors got in and attacked one of the students). I just want to know if it has ever been mentioned in canon so that I don't deviate from it when I'm writing that particular scene.

 

Hopefully posting off topic questions is okay here.

I just my first syed post in the wba thread "Fawkes' Gift." I saw that he has his own tag and after glancing through his post history I saw a similar pattern of posts. Is he just trolling or is he actually serious? How did he manage to get his own tag, was he just that prolific?

Sorry if this has been asked before.

 

Just that prolific. Seems to be serious, also seems to be blind to people responding to him in a negative manner. There are one or two other members with low post counts with a similar steam of consciousness post style who may or may not be him, too, although that's just conjecture.

 

The ignore function is so damn handy sometimes.

 

At one point he seemed to respond to criticism and raise the quality of his posts, using things like capitalisation, paragraphs, and some measure of logical structure... but then he slipped back again and now is just like a zombie walking around DLP groaning, completely unresponsive to any reply.

 

It is not hiding people that respond to his/her posts. Mods: please, please ban syed. It is a pure trolling - maybe unintentional, but it is not changing anything.

From http://forums.darklordpotter.net/announcement.php?f=13&a=4

 

Oh. I always figured that syed was like the village idiot and you guys had grown fond of him over time.

 

LOL NO.

Syed had a hate bandwagon the first time he ventured here from SB. Eventually he got temp-banned, but even the people bitching about him got sick and tired of bitching about him, so he's on ignore lists instead.

I wouldn't be surprised if he's on more ignore lists than any other DLP'er.

 

The problem with the ignore function is that it doesn't hide the posts completely. There's always a thing saying "THERE'S A HIDDEN POST HERE".

I don't know about you guys, but I always have to click to open hidden things.

 

I take it that entering the Room of Hidden Things would prove to be a worthy prize for you?