Good Law Project are now selling "JK Rowlling is a transphobe" stickers

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I think this is really poor. It seems to go well beyond their original remit.
They seem to have turned themselves into a ranty uni-soc type of outfit.

I wonder how JKR will respond, if she does.

https://goodlawproject.org/product/jk-rowling-is-a-transphobe-stickers/

I think it was Transwomen Are Men

I was quite startled by the stickers. If JKR was of a mind to sue for libel, then the burden of proof is on him, that is to say that his stickers are true statement. He cannot claim the defence of opinion since the sticker clearly asserts a statement of fact, rather than opinion.

As to reputational damage, it is one thing tiffing on line quite another to encourage others to parade a libellous statement.

As for it just being a grift, it would be a risky business for him, as an award against him could ruin his business.

personally i think he has lost his mind.

I want her to sue him, because we would see the definition of transphobia explored and dissected in court.

We will see if JKR turns the other cheek, could be interesting…..

I was just going to post about Potter Stinks. What losers they are. Can't decide whether this is an improvement on them acting like Umbridge or not.

He does. He's been on his knees begging her to sue him for ages, the pathetic, undignified twit. When Sarah Phillimore announced she was going to sue him for libel, he said it was JK Rowling suing him.

He's desperate for her to sue so he can cry that little old innocent him is being targeted by a big powerful meanie gazillionaire, and use it as an oppurtunity to whip his gullible followers into a frenzy and sponge more 💰 💰 off them.

I'm beginning to think he actually has a sad little wank fantasy about JK 🤢🤮

Well these sound like the actions of a reputable law firm.

Is Matthew Gill, the in-house defamation lawyer for GLP, on holiday?
This seems like the openest of own goals, JKR isn't going to bother with this but Warner Bros. could.
Honestly guys stick to quilting.

Have you seen this on X from Akua?

I'm not sure that helps. The stickers don't suggest that they're JK Rowling brand, or created by her.

You can't trademark your own name to stop someone talking about you.

I think it might be to do with the typeface

Bank fantasy more like.

100% this is a grift. He wants JKR to sue him so he can rake in £$€¥ from the anger-addled TRA masses.

They have turned her into this cartoon boogeyman, the worst of the TERFs, and the fact she's uncancellable just drives them crazy. So he knows if he can give them the slightest possibility of her "getting what she deserves" they'll fall over each other to contribute just to be part of it.

The box where it says "J K ROWLING" is the box where the mark that is being claimed as a trade mark is put. So - the trademark is for the name J K Rowling.

You can't trademark your own name to stop someone talking about you.

I think (nal) you trademark things for particular purposes. Someone running a builders yard called MacDonalds is fine, someone running their own fast food place isn't. So question would be which areas Rowling has dibs on. Arts, entertainment, games, toys not likely to be a problem - we find his antics entertaining but i doubt a court would. If there's anything around merchandise though.

Still think JKR won't bother, but she doesn't control Warner Bros and they may well dislike their film graphics being imitated.

I think he's simply an arrogant, angry middle aged man with a massive chip on his shoulder who cannot stand the fact that a woman who has achieved a level of fame and wealth way beyond anything he can even dream of keeps getting the better of him. His petulance and jealousy which borders on the pathological has reduced him to selling stickers - while she laughs at him from her yacht. If indeed she gives him a second thought, of course.

She could have so much fun writing his character into one of her (bestselling) books.

Being imitated specifically to attack one of 'their' creatives.

If a spiteful individual attended a street protest with a hand drawn sign using the graphics there'd be no point reacting, but a serial nuisance litigant and self-publicist might be a different thing, however small-scale he is from the international viewpoint.

The MacDonalds analogy is a good one.

The MacDonalds analogy is a good one

Wouldn't it be glorious to see him wriggling around explaining that he meant John Kellogg Rowling, a notorious actual transphobe, and the font was a complete mistake yer honour....

They are obsessed with her. Its like the bat signal for creeps.

God, these men. Absolutely desperate for her attention.

It's been really eye-opening.

Although I do agree that if she sues him, he would leverage that as a massive grift. There's no doubt that he sees £ signs in some public opposition with her.

Which is why, thinking about it, Warner Brothers doing it would be the best option. She's totally hands off, posting pictures sunning herself on her yacht.

Ah. Yes of course.

The donations have seemed to be dropping a bit lately.

Gilderoy Lockheart instantly sprang to mind..

What a mystery.

A devious and cunning plan, Baldrick! She'll never guess!

Next week: 'JK Rowling is a poopy head' on Tshirts.

If I were to zoom out and look at this, I'd say these stickers were actually made by a 'gender critical' person to make trans rights activists look like twits, and to make a mockery of the word 'transphobia'.

Welcome to Feminist Book Club, anon sticker-maker. Glad you could join us.

We've been hard at 'The Emperor's New Clothes' this week, but there's always time for a 'Boy Who Cried Wolf' on a Friday afternoon.

Even some of the Reddit transes are becoming weary of him constantly losing, then spinning it as a massive win.

There'll probably be a flurry when the EHRC code of practice is laid down and he comes up with some spurious argument, but it's not like the good old griftin' days.

This does seem possible, with JKR cast as the big boss at the end of the final level

She's going to ignore this. I wonder what he's going to do next? Will he continue to escalate? It's a bit stalkerish. Does he have no friends who could stage an intervention?