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J. K. Rowling


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April 2008: "Her plea came on a day that began with the judge, Robert P. Patterson, urging Ms. Rowling and Warner Brothers Entertainment, the company that produces the Harry Potter movies, to try to settle the case. They are suing Mr. Vander Ark’s publisher, RDR Books, based in Michigan, to stop publication of the Harry Potter Lexicon. Ms. Rowling contends in the lawsuit that the lexicon copies large chunks of material from her own books while adding little new information and insight."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/17/nyregion/17potter.html

February 2008: "So long as the Lexicon was a free Web site, Ms. Rowling looked kindly upon it. But when Mr. Vander Ark tried to publish part of the Lexicon in book form — and (shudder!) to make a profit — Ms. Rowling put her foot down. She claims that she wants to publish her own encyclopedia someday and donate the proceeds to charity — and a competing book by Mr. Vander Ark would hurt the prospects for her own work. “I feel as though my name and my works have been hijacked, against my wishes, for the personal gain and profit of others and diverted from the charities I intended to benefit,” she said in a declaration to the court."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/09/business/09nocera.html

Relationships

RoleNameTypeLast Updated
Opponent (past or present) RDR Books Organization Feb 10, 2008
Financial Recipient from (past or present) Warner Brothers Entertainment Organization Feb 10, 2008

Articles and Resources

Date Fairness.com Resource Read it at:
Apr 17, 2008 Trial Over Potter Lexicon Ends With an Olive Branch

QUOTE: [Ms. Rowling and Warner Brothers Entertainment] are suing Mr. Vander Ark’s publisher, RDR Books, based in Michigan, to stop publication of the Harry Potter Lexicon. Ms. Rowling contends in the lawsuit that the lexicon copies large chunks of material from her own books while adding little new information and insight.

 New York Times
Feb 09, 2008 A Tight Grip Can Choke Creativity

QUOTE: [Rowling] is essentially claiming that....no one else can use [her characters] without her permission....copyright holders have tried to impose rules on the rest of us — through threats and litigation — that were never intended to be part of copyright law...

 New York Times