JK Rowling wins US copyright suit
08 September 2008
Eileen McDermott and Peter Ollier, Boston
A US judge has found that the author of The Harry Potter Lexicon and its publisher, RDR books, infringed Harry Potter author JK Rowling’s copyrighted works
Judge Robert Patterson of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York said yesterday that Lexicon author Steven Vander Ark’s reference guide to the Harry Potter novels - a companion publication to the Harry Potter Lexicon website - “appropriates too much of Rowling’s creative work” and issued a permanent injunction against the publication....
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