JK Rowling Wins Harry Potter Lexicon Suit (Photos)

Posted on September 8, 2008

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Author JK Rowling wins copyright lawsuit against Harry Potter Lexicon. Read more after the bump!

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Harry Potter author, JK Rowling has won the copyright lawsuit over Harry Potter Lexicon.

JK Rowling has won her claim that a fan violated her copyright with plans to publish an A to Z of Harry Potter. A United States Judge ruled that the unauthorized guide could cause JK Rowling harm as a writer.

JK Rowling had filed the lawsuit against RDR Books, a Michigan-based company, last year over the Harry Potter Lexicon on the grounds that it copied huge parts of her books without adding any original material. Rowling called their project “wholesale theft of 17 years of my hard work”.

The author, Steve Vander Ark, who also runs the popular Harry Potter Lexicon website, wanted to publish the lexicon as a Harry Potter guide to be priced at about $24.95.

Judge Robert Patterson found that RDR Books had “failed to establish an affirmative defence of fair use”, and ruled that publication of the lexicon should be halted.

Good news for JK Rowling!

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    1. gerard Vandenberg on 9-8-2008

      This is sad indeed:
      NEVER ENOUGH MONEY!!

    2. Fans and Copyright Issues - PlagiarismToday on 9-9-2008

      [...] Stupid Celebrities Gossip: More information about the book that never will be. [...]

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