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Rowling wins court photo appeal Harry Potter author JK Rowling has won a legal battle to ban publication of long-lens photographs taken of her son when he was 18 months old. The author claimed the boy's right to privacy had been infringed after a picture of him was published in 2004. The case went to the Court of Appeal after she lost an action last year. Ms Rowling, 42, said she had taken action because she wanted her children to grow up "free from unwarranted intrusions into their...
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J K Rowling, the reputed author of Harry Potter series, has won her battle of putting a ban on further publication of a long-lens photograph of her son in a privacy case. All the lawyers have claimed it to be a major development in the entire field of law and justice of Britain. http://www.netglimse.com/news/1172
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Fighting For The Right To Write
How bizarre it is that Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling is fighting for the right to write her own lexicon for her books. I don’t care for her books, but the legal aspect of this case is very ironic.
At the end of the day, integrity means being fair and correct. The mere fact that a person that didn’t write a book, can challenge the person who did, and in this manner, is bizarre and a bad precedent.
He could undercut her sales and even claim she...
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The 'Harry Potter Trial' has astounded many in fan fiction across the globe. Harry Potter 'Superfan' Steven Vander Ark was once a highly revered Potter authority among fans. His Web site - The Harry Potter Lexicon - an obsessive catalog of spells, characters and creatures in J.K. Rowling's novels - has been a hit among fellow fans. He spoke at conventions. Journalists turned to him for interviews and information. He was a guest on NBC's "Today" show. Even better, Rowling knew who he was...
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Judge Robert Patterson, who is presiding over the Harry Potter Lexicon case, has described J.K. Rowling’s work as gibberish, which I find hilarious, if inaccurate. Here’s the short London Times article by Kevin Dowling.
J. K. Rowling heard her work described as “gibberish” by a US judge yesterday at the end of a three-day trial into an unauthorised encyclopaedia of her Harry Potter novels.
Rowling has asked the federal court in New York to block publication of The Harry Potter Lexicon, a...
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Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling told a judge today that the publication of a Harry Potter lexicon rips off her 20 years of hard work.
Rowling said she didn't do it for the money, it is all a matter of principle.
This case is expected to be in Manhattan court every day this week.
We'll keep you posted.
NEW YORK (AP) — J.K. Rowling testified before a packed courtroom in a lawsuit to block publication of a Harry Potter lexicon, telling a judge that the book amounts to a "wholesale...
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The BBC reports that J.K. Rowling told an Edinburgh University student magazine that she once contemplated suicide before writing Harry Potter.She says it occured in the early 1990s, after separation from her first husband, Portuguese journalist Jorge Arantes.
“We’re talking suicidal thoughts here, we’re not talking ‘I’m a little bit miserable,’ ” Rowling told student Adeel Amini
“Mid-twenties life circumstances were poor and I really plummeted. The thing that made me go for help was...
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William Topaz McGonagall's lack of talent was matched only by his delusion and ego.
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The vocabulary is poor and the rhyme excruciating but a collector paid $12,840 Friday for original works by William Topaz McGonagall, internationally celebrated as the worst poet ever to assault the English ...
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NEW YORK, May 13 (UPI) -- Attorneys for the man who compiled the "Harry Potter Lexicon" said during closing arguments in New York that author J.K. Rowling's lawsuit has no merit.
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This paragraph lists only the most prominent similarities between Ender's Game and the Harry Potter series. My book was published in England many years ...
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The vampires that sank their fangs into Harry Potter were born in the low desert of Arizona. They arrived in a dream, were immediately translated to paper, spread through the adolescent population like a virus and transmogrified into a publishing phenomenon.
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A court ruling in favor of Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has set the stage for a trial on whether publication of photos taken of her young son violates his privacy. The Court of Appeal in London says children of famous parents have the same right to expect privacy as children of parents who...
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