JK Rowling sues publisher for attempting to print fan’s “Harry Potter” encyclopedia

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JK Rowling outside of federal court today.
JK Rowling is suing RDR books for attempting to publish a print version of a popular Harry Potter fan website, The Harry Potter Lexicon. The suit was filed last year and Rowling will be in U.S. District Court for hearings this week.

 

Rowling herself is a big fan of the site, and she even wrote on her website in 2004 that she used the Harry Potter Lexicon site to fact check her own work. Selling an encyclopedia that would include many of her own

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Published 4/14/08 by
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  • like she'd miss a few million dollars here or there.
    kwg03 47 kwg03 4/14/08   Message Add to Friends Reply
     
  • STUPID! they should have worked WITH her on it and then they could have gotten hella rich!
    pARtyGal184 165 pARtyGal184 4/14/08   Message Add to Friends Reply
     
  • they were wrong to do this, but she just makes herself sound greedy.
    happydancrs 45 happydancrs 4/14/08   Message Add to Friends Reply
     

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