Rowling Wins Court Battle With Fan
HARRY POTTER author J.K. ROWLING has won her long-running battle with a fan who planned to publish an unauthorized guide to her wizard franchise.
Rowling began legal proceedings against writer Steve Vander Ark and publisher RDR Books last year (07) after learning of their plans to release The Harry Potter Lexicon.
On Monday (Sep08) New York district court Judge Robert Patterson ruled in Rowling’s favor and banned the encyclopedia-style project’s release.
Patterson told the court that RDR “failed to establish an affirmative defence of fair use”.
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Kristen wrote: Congras to her. I don’t think it would be right if someone besides J.K. wrote it haha.
Alexa wrote: This is great! Glad she won. Congrats to her. And I as well agree with Kristen (above) it would be wrong if someone else besides J.K wrote it. I mean this is HER world after all.
It sucks that she had to go through all that but I am so happy she won in the end!
xtremequeen wrote: ^^I totally agree this wouldn’t have been right not written by J.K.
heroesgirl wrote: it’s a good idea for a book though, would be nice if j.k. made a book like this for the fans.