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J.K. Rowling Prevails Over Superdumb Harry Potter Encyclopedia

Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling won her case against an unauthorized Harry Potter's Lexicon that would explain all the words used in her book. The court ruled it a no-go because it "appropriates too much of Rowling's creative work for its purposes as a reference guide." Rowling said that the "proposed book took an enormous amount of my work and added virtually no original commentary of its own." [Reuters]

10:04 AM on Tue Sep 9 2008
By Sheila
1,690 views, 16 comments

Latest by cdmunch: I hope she won some money from this crook. It's tough making ends meet when you're a writer. more »

Muggle Law Harry Potter authoress JK Rowling keeps suing people! Her latest bit of litigiousness was a dispute about a long-lens photograph of her son, which she wanted banned from any further publication. The suit was originally dismissed, but she just won on an appeal. Next up: those filthy mudbloods.

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Don't Try to Cash in On JK Rowling's Hard Work, OK?

The British author of the Harry Potter series will appear in court in an attempt to stop American publisher RDR books from publishing an "encyclopedia" of the literary wizard-world she created for Harry Potter. We agree, that is obnoxious of them, especially since she was planning on creating a similar guide herself. [Times Online]

10:31 AM on Wed Mar 26 2008
By Sheila
447 views, 15 comments

Latest by I_Luff_Lyfe: @Nick Douglas: Thanks, that was a well-written piece. Anger...subsiding. more »

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JK Rowling Gives A Curious Mona Lisa Smile, Moments Before Outing Santa Claus

[Harry Potter author JK Rowling poses with actor and director Richard Attenborough after winning an award at London's South Bank Show Awards yesterday; image via Bauer-Griffin]

6:00 PM on Wed Jan 30 2008
By Richard Lawson
2,618 views, 54 comments

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Further Literary Revisions Suggested by Stephen King

I don't want him to go over the Reichenbach Falls.
- Stephen King, expressing his hope that J.K. Rowling will not kill off Harry Potter in the last book of the eponymous series, by alluding to the death scene of Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle More »

3:50 PM on Wed Aug 2 2006
By Chris Mohney
320 views, 7 comments

Latest by AcidReign: .....Potter can die or not. It's entertaining stuff either way. And I'm not twenty-something. On the other hand, I'd way more »