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[edit] Intellectual Property Fiasco!

19 November 2008, by Last week I mentioned how smart J.K. Rowling was for not signing the rights to her Harry Potter franchise away. By not signing her rights away she has become one of the most famous rags to riches success stories to date. Ms. Rowling went from living in her car with her children to being [...]

[edit] SXSW Review: We Are Wizards - SpoutBlog

18 November 2008, by


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SpoutBlog, NY - <nobr>22 hours ago</nobr>
Just last week, in fact, yet another fan was sued for publishing a non-fiction work celebrating the Harry Potter lexicon.The fan vs. copyright angle is an ...

[edit] Rowling fan who lost legal battle over Harry Potter Lexicon files ...

18 November 2008, by unknown Rowling fan who lost legal battle over Harry Potter Lexicon files appeal. Submitted by admin on Tuesday, 18 November 2008No Comment. Washington, November 18 (ANI): A Harry Potter fan, who lost legal proceedings regarding the publication ...

[edit] Rowling fan who lost legal battle over Harry Potter Lexicon files ... - Thaindian.com

18 November 2008, by


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Thaindian.com, Thailand - <nobr>Nov 18, 2008</nobr>
Thus far, Rowling has been able to stall the publication of the 400-page text after she got to known about plans to release The Harry Potter Lexicon. ...

[edit] Times Square Gossip: BATTLE CONTINUES OVER HARRY POTTER

17 November 2008, by unknown The writer has so far managed to stall the publication of the 400-page text after learning of their plans to release The Harry Potter Lexicon, detailed in a suit filed last year. RDR’s legal team was expected to file a notice of appeal ...

[edit] Harry Potter author, J.K. Rowling headed back to court.

17 November 2008, by J.K. Rowling may have to head back to court, as the fan who planned to publish an unauthorized guide to Harry Potter, has filed a court appeal. J.K. Rowling and executives at Warner Brothers, who make the Harry Potter films and own the intellectual property rights to the books, won legal proceedings against writer Steve Vander Ark and publisher RDR Books earlier this year. They have managed to stall the publication of the 400-page book after learning of Steve Ark’s plans to release The Harry

[edit] HARRY POTTER - ROWLING FAN FILES COURT APPEAL - Contactmusic.com

17 November 2008, by

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Contactmusic.com, UK - <nobr>Nov 17, 2008</nobr>
The writer has so far managed to stall the publication of the 400-page text after learning of their plans to release The Harry Potter Lexicon, detailed in a ...

[edit] RDR Appeals Lexicon Verdict

16 November 2008, by The Notice of Appeal has been filed. (Thanks to Carlie for letting me know.) I haven't read much of the online comments about this, because there really is nothing to comment on, yet. I will say a few things, though. RDR has every right to appeal. That's part of the legal system. You believe that the trial judge made a mistake, you have the right to get that mistake fixed. Now, what one says -- that can be limited. You just cannot yell "do over." Most appeals are based on errors of law -- i

[edit] The new book of Steve Vander Ark is approved by J. K. Rowling

16 November 2008, by darklordcenter In September, the Lexicon case has finished under the proposition of Judge Patterson who decided that Steve Vander Ark & RDR Books had to edit a new time their encyclopedy. Steve Vander Ark has done it and has published his new book which named In Search of Harry Potter. His book is approved by JKR and available on virtual shop Amazon.com

[edit] New pictures of 'Twilight' cast - Examiner.com

16 November 2008, by

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Examiner.com - <nobr>Nov 16, 2008</nobr>
The series -- which has been heralded as the new Harry Potter by the publishing world -- focuses on teen angst, romance and vampires. ...
<a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/8-1&fd=A&url=http://januarymagazine.com/2008/11/meyer-and-harris-give-vampires-new.html&cid=1272246164&ei=T4kkSf2SMZ_S9QSVoNG0AQ&usg=AFQjCNFnlypZ7U2_vpaOCxwqU15J9WN3wA">Meyer and Harris Give Vampires a New Stake</a> <nobr>January magazine</nobr>
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[edit] Appeal Is Filed in Potter Lexicon Case - New York Times

15 November 2008, by

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New York Times, United States - <nobr>Nov 14, 2008</nobr>
The publisher of “The Harry Potter Lexicon,” which in September was ordered by a judge to halt publication of the book, has filed an appeal to the United ...
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[edit] Arts, Briefly: Appeal Is Filed in Potter Lexicon Case

15 November 2008, by The publisher of “The Harry Potter Lexicon,” which in September was ordered by a judge to halt publication of the book, has filed an appeal to the United States Court of Appeals.

[edit] Harry Potter Lexicon’ Publisher Files Appeal - ArtsBeat Blog ...

14 November 2008, by unknown The publisher of “The Harry Potter Lexicon,” which in September was ordered by a judge to halt publication of the book, has filed an appeal to the United States Court of Appeals, Publishers Weekly reported. In 2007, J. K. Rowling and ...

[edit] RDR Books: Harry Potter Lexicon Case Isn’t Over Yet - School Library Journal

13 November 2008, by

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School Library Journal - <nobr>Nov 13, 2008</nobr>
By SLJ Staff -- School Library Journal,11/12/2008 Get ready for another round of the Harry Potter Lexicon case. RDR Books, publisher of the print version of ...
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[edit] RDR Books: Harry Potter Lexicon Case Isn’t Over Yet | Library Stuff

13 November 2008, by Steven School Library Journal - Get ready for another round of the Harry Potter Lexicon case.

[edit] RDR Books: Harry Potter Lexicon Case Isn’t Over Yet - 11/12/2008 ...

13 November 2008, by unknown Get ready for another round of the Harry Potter Lexicon case. RDR Books, publisher of the print version of the popular Web site, has appealed a recent decision to stop publication of the book.

[edit] RDR Books fait appel sur l’Affaire HPL

12 November 2008, by novembre 12, 2008 — darklordcenter RDR Books, dernièrement condamné à verser 6.750.00 $ de dommages et intérêts à J. K. Rowling, après jugement imposé par la New York Southern District Court pour avoir publié l’encyclopédie non-officielle Harry Potter Lexicon de Steve Vander Ark, a demandé à faire un appel de la décision de justice. Ce dossier géré par le Juge Robert Patterson est donc mis en appel par RDR Books. L’avis d’appel peut être vu ici.

[edit] Harry Potter Lexicon publisher files appeal | TeleRead: Bring the ...

12 November 2008, by unknown In related matters, it is interesting to note that the Internet version of the Harry Potter Lexicon has just won an American Library Association award, being listed as one of the ALA’s top 15 “Great Web Sites” for children. ...

[edit] Harry Potter Lexicon author Steven Vander Ark files for appeal

12 November 2008, by Harry Potter Lexicon author Steven Vander Ark files for appeal Here we go again! Steven Vander Ark has filed an appeal to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in order to get his Lexicon book another hearing. He’s citing fair use, which the judge in the first case already threw out, stating that Vander Ark used too much of JK Rowling’s original material. Personally, I think there’s plenty of room for Vander Ark’s book AND JK Rowling’s proposed HP reference. I think both books could serve a pu

[edit] Harry Potter Lexicon site wins an award

12 November 2008, by Harry Potter Lexicon site wins an award The Harry Potter Lexicon site, which, in spite of its legal battles this year is still a phenomenal site, has won a American Library Association award as part of their 15 Great Sites for Children push. You can see the rest of the sites here: ALA Great Sites for Kids. Tags: American Library Association, Harry Potter, harry potter lexicon, JK Rowling, Steven Vander Ark Share This By Wendy

[edit] Harry Potter Lexicon author appeals fair use loss

12 November 2008, by ars technica - “Vander Ark’s publisher has finally appealed the ruling to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals”

[edit] Accio Appeals Court! Harry Potter Lexicon author appeals fair use loss - Ars Technica

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Ars Technica, MA - <nobr>Nov 12, 2008</nobr>
By Nate Anderson | Published: November 12, 2008 - 10:21AM CT JK Rowling, creator of the Harry Potter novels, triumphed in a Manhattan courtroom earlier this ...

[edit] • Embattled Potter site wins library award - MLive.com

12 November 2008, by


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MLive.com, MI - <nobr>Nov 12, 2008</nobr>
... earlier this year with the proposed print version of The Harry Potter Lexicon Web site created by former Grand Rapids school librarian Steve VanderArk. ...

[edit] Techdirt: Publisher Appeals Ruling Against Harry Potter Lexicon

12 November 2008, by unknown There are numerous Harry Potter guides out there which describe the world of Harry Potter by combining elements of the books with deep original research and insight by their authors, and none of those has been challenged. The Lexicon is ...

[edit] Harry Potter Lexicon - the sequel

12 November 2008, by Remember the court battle between Rowlings and the publishers of the Harry Potter Lexicon? Well much like the books and films this court case will not go away either. This was on the blog Recording Industry vs. the People: “Copyright and Fair Use” at Stanford Law School reports that the defendant publisher, RDR Books, has filed an appeal from the Judge’s decision in Warner Bros. Pictures v. RDR Books, the case involving the Harry Patter Lexicon. The Judge, after a bench trial, issued an injun

[edit] An Appeal In the "Harry Potter Lexicon" Case - Slashdot

12 November 2008, by


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Slashdot - <nobr>Nov 11, 2008</nobr>
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "RDR Books, the would-be publisher of the book version of the 'Harry Potter Lexicon' Web site, has filed an appeal from the ...

[edit] An Appeal In the "Harry Potter Lexicon" Case

12 November 2008, by NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "RDR Books, the would-be publisher of the book version of the 'Harry Potter Lexicon' Web site, has filed an appeal from the Judge's decision in Warner Bros. Pictures v. RDR Books, the case involving the Harry Potter Lexicon. ...

[edit] An Appeal In the "Harry Potter Lexicon" Case

12 November 2008, by NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "RDR Books, the would-be publisher of the book version of the 'Harry Potter Lexicon' Web site, has filed an appeal from the Judge's decision in Warner Bros. Pictures v. RDR Books, the case involving the Harry Potter Lexicon. ...

[edit] The Harry Potter Lexicon

11 November 2008, by Ultraman: + Template:Wikificering Template:Wikificering The Harry Potter Lexicon er et stort online ((leksikon)) over ((J. K. Rowling))s bogserie ved navn ((Harry Potter)). I leksikonet kan man finde en beskrivelse af næsten alt fra alle syv Harry Potter ...

[edit] The Goblet of Fire…

11 November 2008, by The Goblet of Fire… Posted by: wizardwear4u in Miscellaneous Don’t know what to give the Harry Potter fan in your life this holiday season? How about a replica of the Goblet of Fire? You’ll need to hurry as there is a limited quantity available worldwide for this 8 inch, incredibly detailed, pewter sculpture. This item can even be gift-boxed! The Warner Brothers Holiday Sale is good from November 11 through December 22nd with up to 75% off select items. This includes the Gob

[edit] Harry Potter Lexicon author appeals fair use loss | Library Stuff

10 November 2008, by Steven ars technica - Vander Ark's publisher has finally appealed the ruling to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.

[edit] p2pnet news » Blog Archive » Harry Potter Lexicon author appeals ...

10 November 2008, by Jon “The Harry Potter Lexicon - This is such a great site that I have been known to sneak into an internet café while out writing and check a fact rather than go into a bookshop and buy a copy of Harry Potter (which is embarrassing),” ...

[edit] Recording Industry vs. The People

10 November 2008, by Ray Beckerman Harry Potter Lexicon decision appealed "[P]laintiffs unreasonably rejected or sought to suppress evidence to the extent it tended to exonerate defendant, such as the expert's report concerning the examination of defendant's computer ...

[edit] Lawyer Curses Potter Copyright Crimes - Harvard Crimson

7 November 2008, by


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Harvard Crimson, MA - <nobr>Nov 6, 2008</nobr>
The site, “The Harry Potter Lexicon,” alphabetically indexes Harry Potter names and terms, from Hannah Abbott to “zoological column”—the Daily Prophet’s ...

[edit] How would Harry Potter vote?

4 November 2008, by In an interesting article over at the MTV Movies Blog, the folks from Wrock the Vote talked about how Harry Potter and other various characters might vote if given the chance. Here’s how they would vote in California on Prop.8, for instance: “We are asking people to vote on on propositions that would take away same-sex marriage,” Slack explained. “We talk about the importance of how J.K. Rowling says that Harry Potter is an extended argument in favor of tolerance. When Lupin, a werewolf, was

[edit] Rowling Wins Against Lexicon (Alan Wexelblat)

8 October 2008, by In a not-at-all-surprising decision, Judge Patterson has ruled to block publication of the print version of Steven Vander Ark's "Harry Potter Lexicon." The judge's decision noted that the proposed Lexiconcopies distinctive original language from the Harry Potter ...

[edit] Rowling Wins Against Lexicon

8 October 2008, by In a not-at-all-surprising decision, Judge Patterson has ruled to block publication of the print version of Steven Vander Ark's "Harry Potter Lexicon." The judge's decision noted that the proposed Lexiconcopies distinctive original language from the Harry Potter ...

[edit] Why Harry Potter survived

8 October 2008, by In a fascinating podcast that will actually air today, JK Rowling talks about the survival of Harry Potter. Here’s what she had to say: JKR: In many ways it would have been a neater ending to kill him. For sure, I knew that all along. felt that the books’ overriding message was that love is the most powerful force in this world. My model with Harry really was war veterans, who have seen horrors and are asked to go home and rebuild, and go back to ordinary life and care for a family, be a fat

[edit] JK Rowling makes nearly $9 a second

3 October 2008, by So we all know by now that JK Rowling is richer that God at this point, right? Well, according to Contact Music, she makes about 5 pounds a second, which translates into approximately $8.89 at today’s rates. So if she was the one writing this particular post, she would already have made a whopping $2667, which is about five minutes worth of work. Tags: Harry Potter, harry potter lexicon, JK Rowling Share This

[edit] Encyclopedias of Facts About Fiction: J.K. Rowling and Harry Potter

28 September 2008, by Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. v. RDR Books, --- F. Supp.2d ---, 2008 WL 4126736 (9/8/2008) S.D.N.Y., Patterson, J. A Harry Potter fan created a lexicon, available on the internet. The lexicon was popular with everyone, including J.K. Rowling and the people who made films about her books. Rowling wrote on her website "This is such a great site that I have been known to sneak into an internet cafe while out writing and check a fact rather than go into a bookshop and buy a copy of Harry Potter (w

[edit] JK Rowling talks about the Veil in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

25 September 2008, by Something that has always intrigued me in the Harry Potter books is the scene in the Ministry of Magic where Sirius gets drawn beyond the Veil: what is it? Was it a barrier between this world and the next? JK Rowling has finally given a great explanation of what was behind her thinking on that: It’s the divide between life and death. I tried to do a nod to that in The Tale of Three Brothers - she was separate from them as though through a veil. You can’t go back if you pass through that veil,

[edit] Do you know what a Flint is?

23 September 2008, by Apparently, a Flint is when fans of Harry Potter find errors of continuity after the fact. Cheryl Klein, a senior editor at Scholastic, gave a great interview to MTV in which she talks about this issue; here’s what she had to say: “Marcus Flint, who is the Slytherin Quidditch captain in books one and two, appears again in book three,” said Cheryl Klein, a senior editor at Arthur A. Levine Books, the Scholastic imprint that publishes the “Harry Potter” series in the U.S. “But he was said to b

[edit] Harry Potter quote of the day - Voldemort

19 September 2008, by “Get back here, Potter! I want to see your face when I kill you! I want to see the light leave your eyes!” Share This

[edit] Episode #90: Interview with Steve Vander Ark of the Harry Potter Lexicon

16 September 2008, by If you’re a fan of the Harry Potter books and J.K. Rowling, and were alive during the month of April of 2008, you probably heard about a little law suit over a book called “The Harry Potter Lexicon.”  The author of that book, Steve Vander Ark, is also the creator and editor of the Harry Potter Lexicon website.  We got a chance to talk with Steve about the lawsuit, the fan reactions, his new book and, of course, we talked a bit about Harry Potter (you know, the books about this boy wizard…oh nev

[edit] What was JK Rowling back in her school days?

15 September 2008, by Wouldn’t it be fun to find out what JK Rowling was back when she was in school? The Guardian has a fun article that answers that question: Wyedean comprehensive, Chepstow, 1976-1983. John Nettleship, science Joanne has said that no characters in Harry Potter are based more than 10% on any one person. I suppose the fact that I used to have long, black hair, is just a coincidence. To be honest, I think Snape, especially in the later books, is very like me. Joanne would have been about 12 when

[edit] The Harry Potter Lexicon case is far from over

15 September 2008, by Well, we knew this was coming! Steven Vander Ark and RDR Books plan on filing an appeal to continue the publication of the Harry Potter Lexicon. Here’s more: Vander Ark, who founded the Lexicon Web site more than a decade ago, said he would revise the book and remove offending passages. “I’ve always been very much willing to work with” Rowling and Warner Bros. “and try to see what can be done,” he said. - source Part of me is glad that they’re going ahead and filing an appeal, part of me

[edit] The best of this week at the Gryffindor Gazette

13 September 2008, by more animals Harry Potter Tattoos Harry Potter in the Guiness Book of World Records The Harry Potter Lexicon is Gone Reports from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Screening! Victory for JK Rowling against the Harry Potter Lexicon and Steven Vander Ark Share This

[edit] Potter Wins, Lexicon Ends

12 September 2008, by On September 08, 2008, United States District Court judge ruled that publication of the unofficial 400-page Harry Potter Lexicon by Steven Vander Ark cannot go forward with plans to publish. The judge viewed the manuscript’s heavy reliance on author J.K. Rowling’s original Harry Potter books for the Lexicon’s content to be a violation of Rowling’s copyright. Rowling also receive a financial award of US$6,750 with the judgment. This ruling is expected to influence future rulings regarding fan us

[edit] Bloomsbury Academic Launches Creative Commons Only Publishing Imprint - Creative Commons

11 September 2008, by cherylf

[edit] J.K. Rowling Wins, Readers Lose

9 September 2008, by A judge decided that J.K. Rowling would suffer "irreparable harm" if the Harry Potter Lexicon, a labor of love for an unpaid web writer, were to be published. Yes, this is a victory for J.K. Rowling, who at this point will never want for money for the rest of her life, but ...

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