This was a hot hot hot topic at
PORTUS, a Harry Potter Symposium in July we attended. The
idea that "fanfiction" could lose in court was challenged.
"A judge says "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling has won her claim
that a fan violated her copyright with his plans to publish a Potter
encyclopedia.
"Judge Robert Patterson said in a ruling Monday that Rowling had proven that
Steven Vander Ark's "Harry Potter Lexicon" would cause her irreparable harm as
a writer. Vander Ark runs the popular Harry Potter Lexicon Web site.
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