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Harry Potter Goes To Court Over Copyright Fight
A federal court in New York on Monday will hear opening arguments over whether an independent book publisher has the right to publish the Harry Potter Lexicon, an unofficial reference guide to the Harry Potter series of books and movies. The trial is expected to last several days.
Attorneys from the Fair Use Project of Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society will argue that their client, RDR Books, has the right to publish the guidebook under the "fair use" doctrine, which safeguards the use of copyrighted material so long as it is used transformatively and does not damage the market value of the original work.
The suit began last October when Warner Bros., which owns the film rights to the Harry Potter books, and Harry Potter author J.K Rowling filed a lawsuit to block the Lexicon's publication. The 400-word book is a print counterpart to a fan-created Web site, which includes information on the series' characters, places, animals and magic spells. Read more here.
Posted by Andrew on April 14, 2008 10:51 AM | Permalink
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