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JK Rowling Wins Copyright Lawsuit Against Fan

by Jarrett Martineau | September 8, 2008 at 10:03 am

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As NowPublic reported earlier this year, author JK Rowling filed a lawsuit against Steven Vander Ark for his attempt to publish a fan-created, but unauthorized, Harry Potter encyclopedia.

Today it was announced that Ms. Rowling has won the lawsuit and that Mr. Vander Ark's book will be blocked from publication.

Do you agree with the decision? Should the fan-created Harry Potter Lexicon have been allowed to be published?

Author JK Rowling has won her legal battle in a New York court to get an unofficial Harry Potter encyclopaedia banned from publication.

Judge Robert Patterson said in a ruling Ms Rowling had proven Steven Vander Ark's Harry Potter Lexicon would cause her irreparable harm as a writer.

Ms Rowling sued Michigan based publishers RDR Books last year to stop publication of the Mr Vander's book.

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master_jim2008

at 10:13 on September 8th, 2008

I think as long as it's labeled AS unofficial, JK has no say so in the matter so long as any copyrighted images are not used within or that the writer pay to use them.

Bush and his nazis are going way too far lol

Mikasi

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at 18:43 on September 8th, 2008

Jarrett Martineau, I like this story. It's good stuff.

The concept of intellectual property must change just as the technology behind it has changed. Those of us who create it - and she is much better than I will ever be - have to realize this.