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The ongoing court battle between JK Rowling and Steven Vander Ark - the 50-year-old compiler of a Harry Potter Lexicon - has created a good deal of heat and not much light.

Liz Hunt: JK Rowling finds breaking with Harry Potter is hard to do
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It isn't in the least relevant that JK Rowling is already rich, or that the judge thinks that Harry Potter is "gibberish" (it is gibberish, of course, and all the better for it), or that Warner Brothers is a big media company, or that the peculiarly named Mr Vander Ark is a grown man and surely ought to have something better to do with his time, or that an Oxford scholar thinks his work is sloppy.

http://tinyurl.com/5pjaky

Fuente: http://www.inttranews.net

New York, USA (Gothamist): While a judge deliberates on whether Harry Potter superfan Steve Vander Ark and his publisher violated copyright law by producing a lexicon based on J.K. Rowling’s hit novels, the 50-year-old librarian has simply been trying to keep it together. This week he told the New Yorker all about the trauma caused by the recent trial, during which he broke down in tears.

http://tinyurl.com/55umuc



Fuente: http://www.inttranews.net