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   Louis Epstein to All   
   Quidditch?...Queerditch?   
   18 Dec 21 06:11:44   
   
   From: le@top.put.com   
      
   So some players of a non-magical Quidditch variant are   
   planning to rename their sport...in practical reasons because   
   the Warner Brothers trademark rights to the name impede   
   their publicity,but they play up their disagreement with   
   Rowling's (insufficient IMO) hostility to trans-madness.   
      
   Some pro-Rowling people at Ovarit are grousing that it   
   would be just like the "pro-LGBTQ" crowd to use the name   
   Queerditch...but are they forgetting that's exactly where   
   Rowling said the name came from,Queerditch Marsh?   
      
   Since that's in her charity book and not the films I expect   
   she'd have a stronger case to sue them if they used the name,   
   and they'd pay her (or a charity of her choice) if she won   
   instead of paying WarnerMedia.   
      
   I've never been attracted to the sport myself.   
      
   But is it better that these people now casting about   
   for a name for what they play get distanced from   
   Rowling,or forced to acknowledge their debt to her?   
      
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