Harry Potter has made JK Rowling richer than her wildest dreams - but if you try to make money out of Harry Potter, JK Rowling will crush you in her mighty fist. Harry Potter fan Steven Vander Ark is slowly coming to realise this, because he's trying to publish a third-party Harry Potter reference book, Harry Potter Lexicon , and JK Rowling is doing her best to sue his balls off about it. ...

Wow. In the last couple of days, there has been a LOT of interesting news regarding the upcoming “Harry Potter Lexicon” and the reaction from JK Rowling. I’m going to round up a few different perspectives here so you can get a bigger picture of what’s going on. First: the short version. Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling is trying to stop a fan of the books from ...

EXPELLIARIUMUS LITIGO: J.K. Rowling has sued the folks behind the upcoming published version of the Harry Potter Lexicon , claiming it infringes on her copyrights. Complicating matters is that Rowling had been nothing but supportive of the site until it became a book that would sell alongside hers. Will be interesting to see how it shakes out. (Also on a legal note, how awesome is it that ...

Rowling 'exploited' By Planned Potter Encyclopedia.... J.K. Rowling feels '"exploited" over the planned publication of an unofficial Harry Potter encyclopedia. The author and Warner Brothers, which owns the rights to the boy wizard books, filed a lawsuit against publisher Rdr Books in October (07) over The Harry Potter Lexicon, based on fan Steve V...

Papers filed in J.K. Rowling's lawsuit indicate she is not happy about one Harry Potter fan's plan to publish an unauthorized reference work , the Associated Press reports. Rowling has previously praised the fan site, Harry Potter Lexicon , on which the book is based. Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels has talked about casting a nonblack actor to play Obama on the show with ...

J.K. Rowling feels '"exploited" over the planned publication of an unofficial Harry Potter encyclopedia. The author and Warner Brothers, which owns the rights to the boy wizard books, filed a lawsuit against publisher RDR Books in October over The Harry Potter Lexicon, based on fan Steve Vander Ark's website of the same name. The book was due for publication in November last year. In a ...