J.K. Rowling Sues Small Publisher
Friday, November 2nd, 2007It’s inevitable. When you get this big, this popular and this wealthy everyone wants to ride the coattails to success.
By DAVID B. CARUSO, Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK – J.K. Rowling and the maker of the “Harry Potter” films are suing a small publisher in Michigan over its plans to release a book version of a popular Web site dedicated to the boy wizard.
The suit, filed Wednesday by the author and Warner Bros. in federal court in Manhattan, claims that RDR Books will infringe on Rowling’s intellectual property rights if it goes ahead with its plan to publish the 400-page “Harry Potter Lexicon” on Nov. 28. (more…)
