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Rowling seeks to stop ‘The Harry Potter Lexicon’ from being published – Los Angeles Times
Posted on: April 18, 2008
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Rowling seeks to stop ‘The Harry Potter Lexicon’ from being published – Los Angeles Times: “J.K. Rowling
EXITING COURT: Author J.K. Rowling says a fan’s planned encyclopedia on Harry Potter violates copyright laws.
The trial features tears, lectures on Latin roots and one reluctant judge. It’s a lot for a mere muggle to decide.
Now that the petty wrangling, emotional outbursts and mind-numbing duels over Latin words roots have ended, the federal judge in this week’s Harry Potter trial faces a daunting task: How do you balance an author’s right to protect her copyrighted novels with a publisher’s right to produce a new book that borrows heavily from these bestselling texts?
Based on his comments during the trial, U.S. Judge Robert S. Patterson Jr. would rather not be deciding the case at all, which pits J.K. Rowling, author of the seven Harry Potter novels, against RDR Books, a Michigan firm hoping to publish ‘The Harry Potter Lexicon,’ an unauthorized encyclopedia. Indeed, the judge seemed at times to long for a wand — perhaps to conjure one of Hogwarts’ magical spells like ‘Silencio,’ causing people to fall silent.
‘Litigation isn’t always the best way to solve things,’ Patterson told Rowling, who”
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