JK Rowling and WB sue Indian community
JK Rowling and WB sue Indian community CBC News, based in Canada, is reporting that an Indian community is being sued over their replica of the Hogwarts castle. Made out of canvas and papier mâché, the castle was going to be used in an upcoming festival. However, a representative for the community groups claims they had no idea they needed to seek permission. From CBC:

The group had also hired artists to create a replica of the Hogwarts Express, the train that Harry Potter and his young wizard friends take to the school, as well as life-sized models of the main figures in the best-selling series of books.

The group has spent about $30,000 for its replica, called a pandal.

"It's just a theme.… We have also modelled the Titanic and no-one sued us," said another organizer, Robin Mukherjee.


A lawyer will try to fight the lawsuit on Friday. For the full story, click here.
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Posted by ginnypotter719 Oct 11th 2007

What the hell??! im sorry if im more...intellectual than u are..and i use my brain to insult u not my ***, like you do. i dont like giving insults like throwing furballs full of dog pee at people like u danny cuz it makes no freaking sense. i happen to love science, yes i have an interest in academics and i intend on applying it..whether it be at school, real life, or insulting bipolar psychopaths on mugglenet. :)


Posted by REMiiSAHMAZiNGx4 Oct 11th 2007

Oh nothing dr same old same old although my operation R&T is working quite well and my English teacher was tearing for her mental breakdown today... and well i was just admiring how big Mesh has gotten since i was on last! and before when it was raining and thundering and lightning i saw this perfect harry potter like scar bolt of lighting bold and well I'm grounded so its the first time ive been on in well like 5 days and boy have i missed much hi Ginny i see you Danny and Ari are in the midst of a fight that's your losing once again! :D hey Danny today in gym we played football i kicked a field goal :)


Posted by dannyrob15 Oct 11th 2007

hey dan_rad_yada yada! hey remi! where u been?? okay i'll be straight with u Dr. Q: i don't like you. need me to spell it now? but ur a scientist so u should noe. go assume somewhere else. go analyze some other person's words. go observe some grass...


Posted by Dragon_queen4ever Oct 11th 2007

cant stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. insult a person ,prepare to be insulted back, everyone usually gets flamed once in a while. it builds character.


Posted by LOvE_HarryPotter Oct 11th 2007

why does everyone ALWAYS argue on these things? It's just beyond my understanding how you can possibly get satisfaction by typing obscene messages to people..someone explain please?


Posted by ginnypotter719 Oct 11th 2007

lee: i guess u and all your cheesecakians "loooove" each other too because ur always on to get eachothers backs. what was that you called me once upon a time? i recall it was "gay" i guess it applies to all you cheesecakians.


Posted by Dragon_queen4ever Oct 11th 2007

I argue because its fun. debating is fun. In school we will be debating on the giver :). Its not the hatred, its the comebacks, if you win, you win, if you dont, you learned a bit more about a subject.


Posted by fireking Oct 11th 2007

aye- if this is for pure enjoyment, cant people do it? i draw harry potter drawings and replicas for fun, there not coming after me.......... not yet, at least


Posted by LOvE_HarryPotter Oct 11th 2007

I feel like a dork for asking, but what exactly are these 'cheesecakians' I keep hearing the term on these forums...


Posted by dannyrob15 Oct 11th 2007

okay ginny, you noe if u were SMART enough you'd know i was kidding around saying i was gonna skin u or whatever. and once again, both of u are assumers. you assume that we are bipolar. maybe u should get to noe someone before u insult them.


Posted by REMiiSAHMAZiNGx4 Oct 11th 2007

oh well love harry potter (nice name by the way) ocationally people have clashes with the cheesecakians with other people who beilve we are just spammers and that were giving harry potter a bad name.. oh and ginny are you calling me the bipolar psychopathic? cause that's just not nice.. that like the only thing in the world that makes me cry and believe me when i cry its because it really hurts..because i few crying as a weak spot so thanks so much. And we like eachother cause were all friends ginny you should try to get some..


Posted by sirius_lee Oct 11th 2007

actually ginny dr.55q was making assumptions.. ur guessing, well i guess its close enuff but if i hadnt posted thins he mite not have known so thank me later, for now go observe grass with him.... dr. 55q lilbecky told me to post this for u: You have made a mistake in your arguing. You have assumed we have no logic. And you know what they say about assuming. (Well maybe you don’t, it’s a Western thing) Never assume becuz it will make an A$$ out of U and ME. (see it spells assume) You also assume that we haven’t faced people annoyed with us before and that we don’t negotiate. Why do you think we are on the second post and not the newest one?? So people that want to post about the new news can and will not be annoyed. But if YOU LOOK at the news posts on MN you will see the ones that we don’t post on only have 40,or 50,or 60 posts on it. Which leads me to my next point, your logic is flawed. You are saying A +B =C (A- us, B-chatting and C-people not posting on MN) and you have no scientific proof to back this up. The posts that we DO NOT post on HAVE NO COMMENTS ON THEM. PEOPLE ARE NOT POSTING BECUZ WE ARE HERE,(becuz if they were the other news posts would have hundreds of posts) THEY ARE LEAVING BECUZ THERE IS NOTHING NEW TO TALK ABOUT. I made this point before and you ignored it, so PLEASE address it now. People use to post more when everything was not known and there was still room for speculation. What does the cover mean? Is Snape good or evil? Will the trio live? THESE QUESTIONS HAVE BEEN ANSWERED SO PEOPLE ARE POSTING LESS. My point is proven becuz we were here before DH was released and there was still hundreds of people chatting even WE WERE HERE. And we are still here and people are posting less. We are the constant, not the variable. We did not affect the posting on here, the release of DH did.


Posted by Dragon_queen4ever Oct 11th 2007

Cheescakians are spammers, but more of good spammers really.


Posted by Padfoot777 Oct 11th 2007

What?! Okay this is one thing that does not seem at all sensible. People make replicas all the time! JK is my hero, but that doen't seem right. Now if they are making a profit that is wrong. Were they going to make a profit? I didn't read the entire thing. Okay, if they are not making profit it's wrong, but if they are making a profit never mind about it not being right. SDtill it seems a rather trivial thing.


Posted by ginnypotter719 Oct 11th 2007

i do have friends, thanx for the concern. Dannyrob: i dont care whether u were kidding or not that is disgusting and wrong and inhumane on many levels. take your own advice of "maybe u should get to noe someone before u insult them." before you give it to me. You dont know me, and you have only seen the ugly because you have only exhibited ugly yourself. I blame it all on lee for starting all this.


Posted by Dragon_queen4ever Oct 11th 2007

dont want an arguement ginny? DONT REPLY! geezus...


Posted by Clark Oct 11th 2007

I'm going to be short on this matter. Nope. Sorry. I don't support the lawyers. They have enough money on it, and it is a bit unsettling to find Rowling's name tagged onto the Lawyer's side. Technically, I do believe in copywrite...but I'm not that strict about it... It's all for fun and respect to Potter - let 'em do it. ~ Clark (D69)


Posted by mandragora Oct 11th 2007

oo i kind of feel bad for them. they're just having fun and then they find out they're getting sued??? its kind of sad.


Posted by TheMuggleFromAnywhere Oct 11th 2007

copyrights should not be this tight. i cant believe JK would be involved in this. its stupid.


Posted by REMiiSAHMAZiNGx4 Oct 11th 2007

Nice speach ari! Yea dragon queen is right i come onto mugglenet to talk to other harry potter loves just like yourselves and eventutally you know the people so well and you become like virtual friends and when someone coughginnycough attacks a friend of ourse we all band together and help eachother out!! Thats whats being a cheececakian is like and we also love cheesecake hense the name :)


Posted by dannyrob15 Oct 11th 2007

okay ginny, plzz tell me the last time i commented on ur "stupidity". i insult u b/c u insulted the cheesecakeians...


Posted by Padfoot777 Oct 11th 2007

Okay, looked at the article. It was just for fun! They didn't mean anything! They just love Harry Potter as do we all! It abit too trival of a matter to be anger over in my opinion. Though we might not have heard the whole story.


Posted by Dragon_queen4ever Oct 11th 2007

and please cite your sources, or we will be forced to accuse you of hearsay :)


Posted by sirius_lee Oct 11th 2007

ginny i wish danny hadnt been joking.... and if u did have friends and didnt want any here then u wouldnt post back cuz u wouldnt care wut we thought of u.... get to noe u ginny? wut can i noe? thats like saying get to noe that piec of sh*t. wut can i do, ask how much it ways? how long it took to get digested???


Posted by LOvE_HarryPotter Oct 11th 2007

good spammers? huh interesting. I understand now, thanks. Well anyway I hope the people that made the replica don't have to pay to the rather wealthy JK & WB who are filing this silly lawsuit...


Posted by ginnypotter719 Oct 11th 2007

lee: nice essay and equations, it was a worthy attempt at becoming like your superiors (i and other mutlti-celled organisms). Congrats for being here before DH. ive been here for years as well, what do want? to be revered as some mugglenet veteran with special rights. You are so single minded and all ur buddies are criticizing 55q and me for analyzing comments. that was the most analytical freaking response ever. If your friend has sumthing to say, let it say it, why are you the owl? do you not have anything else to say? do i smell victory? i think yes.


Posted by 55q Oct 11th 2007

wth? where did I assume that? and what does it have to do with my point, cheesecake men ruin mugglenet. there is no point for you to be here anymore, youve herded enough sheep. You dont do any good for this once great site and danny, "Observe some grass" you people have no reasoning so you just think of hilarious insults that mean nothing, are you 9 years old or somewhat? maybe that is explaining it. at least sirius post have some substance to it, congrats sirius lee, but im not going to come here to argue about nothing. Nothing to talk about? ah, there were about 10 news posts in the last 2 days. you move up to the second post, great, so everything after 1st post is spam. amazing negotiations yes?


Posted by Daniel_Radcliffe_Is_My_Husband Oct 11th 2007

Nobody is talking to me... :( Please talk to me


Posted by Dragon_queen4ever Oct 11th 2007

So. It appears you have the right to analyze our psots without harassment, but if analyze yours, we're doing soemthing obscene and unforgivable correct? Also, you said we are 'single minded'. The real problem is, is that narrowminded people ,say that to people who are just as stubborn as they are. hypocrisy dude.


Posted by dannyrob15 Oct 11th 2007

ginny, maybe her friend wasn't able to come on mn and emailed it to her...ever thought of that?


Posted by DarkWizard Oct 11th 2007

oh give the poor people a break. Jo, being poor and out of the corporate world for a time, should know not to do that. The people were advertising for u you jerks.....u just want more money.....stupid gits


Posted by ginnypotter719 Oct 11th 2007

wow. am i that popular that im recieving fanmail through owls like lee? haha..funnny!! she went through all that trouble...really this is all just petty nonsense...fools!


Posted by 55q Oct 11th 2007

btw danny ASSUMING you arent 9 (just immature) and are comfortable giving it out what country do you live in? dying of curiousity.


Posted by dannyrob15 Oct 11th 2007

why should i give u that? you pedifile. there's an assumption for u..


Posted by Dragon_queen4ever Oct 11th 2007

lol danny :) oh so true!


Posted by Katherine_The_Crowned Oct 11th 2007

Hmm, as much as I support Jo, i dont think i can on this one. I really dont see the problem. Its like sueing people who do fanart and such. Just a tidbit over board.


Posted by PotterLove06 Oct 11th 2007

Hey dannyrob15, remember me? Haha, probably not, but I was the person who was discussin NBA with you on the Mugglenet comments a few months ago, haha. So...how you been?


Posted by ginnypotter719 Oct 11th 2007

surrender before you lose the little dignity and self respect i have spared you.


Posted by Dragon_queen4ever Oct 11th 2007

ginny? youve probably read a couple of books...*coughharrycough* dont you now the hero NEVER gives up?


Posted by ginmo Oct 11th 2007

I think it's stupid for them to sue even if they are making a profit off using the castle and stuff. JKR and Warner Brothers have WAYYYYY enough money to just let this pass and let the gy have his fun. JKR is one of the richest in the world... she REALLY doesn't need to get more money... if I were her, I'd just ignore it. There are always going to be those people out there doing that whether she likes it or not and she's rich enough to just sit back and ignore it.


Posted by dannyrob15 Oct 11th 2007

yeah potterlove, hey i remember u!!!!! from my first post!!!! the anvil one!!!! i'm doing good. hbu?


Posted by 55q Oct 11th 2007

if i were pedo i would join cheesecake men and pretend to be a girl or something. it would be easy.all these little kids on one website, not talking about hp, getting into personal info...in fact I will email mugglenet about this matter, so they can be stricter on spam as to avoid having some poor cheesecake girl molested or some sick thing like that...


Posted by PotterLove06 Oct 11th 2007

dannyrob15: yeah ive been pretty good, sick of school and stuff, but I'm excited cause preseason Bulls games started! I'm very excited for NBA this year.


Posted by Dragon_queen4ever Oct 11th 2007

*inches away from 55q* that is just plain creepy


Posted by ginnypotter719 Oct 11th 2007

dragonqueen: you have correctly identified me (the hero). but recall the heros nemisis *coughvoldemortcough* and his followers? well thats lee and the rest of u the death eaters. im satisfied with this hp reference....its pretty good for a cheesecake to come up with.


Posted by dannyrob15 Oct 11th 2007

oh don't even act as if u care. all u want is for us to leave so u can have a nice "organized" post. there's another assumption for u. and fyi its not spam. spam is when u continually hit the post comment button till u have like a hundred posts. well i gotta go. nice talking to u...not. now go run off and assume other ppl. or observe/analyze whatever, cuz that's all u do rite?


Posted by sirius_lee Oct 11th 2007

sorry i left... had to restart the comp.... dang the two love birds just wont leave!! WHO WANTS TO BE A CHEESECAKIAN?????????


Posted by Dragon_queen4ever Oct 11th 2007

errr, Im not a cheesecakina person. And last time I checked, the evil people went around saying stuff like 'surrender' not the good guys.


Posted by 55q Oct 11th 2007

you read what i said? really dont see how what said is creepy...


Posted by ginnypotter719 Oct 11th 2007

55q: that comment has officially made comments as freaky as mugglenetchat. in my opinion irrelevant, off topic, and very very creepy.






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