Rowling, WB file suit over companion book
The Harry Potter author and Warner Bros. filed suit in a Manhattan Court today against Harry Potter Lexicon owner Steve Vander Ark and several defendants for publishing "an unofficial encyclopedic companion to the 'Harry Potter' series," saying it "infringes copyright and attempts to cash in on the successful brand." The Harry Potter Lexicon is slated to be released by RDR Books on November 28.
Roger Rapoport, the publisher and owner of RDR Books said the companion novel "only promotes the sale of J.K. Rowling's work and we intend to publish on schedule as planned."
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I've got to go now; I'm going on a college visit this weekend and I need to go pack. But it's my last one! Say hi to all the cheesecakians at the convocation tonight for me! (Cheesecakian Convocation... that sounds good) Bye!
It's one thing to have a open website with all the HP information. It's another to sell a book and make money off of it. Also, from my understanding, this encyclopedia is set apart from all of the other companion books because everything from it is directly out of HP. The books like the ones that Mugglenet does are about the books, yes, but they are full of opinions and interpreptations of the plots. I stand behind JKR 100% on this issue and it disguests me that someone as well known and liked in the HP fandom would not listen to JKR's wishes.
CHEESCAKIAN MEETING!!! 6:00 EATERN TIME!!! CELEBRATE HP DAY!!!
its a really good black and white movie with audry hepburn!! It's awesome..oh and tonight after harry potter day im gonna watch titanic!!
why titanic???
when is HP day starting ??
Oh my lord. Come on people! SHE is the owner of Harry Potter! SHE gave us the world! So why not respect her wish of not publishing the book?? It's sounds to me like someone could care less about Jo, and they just want to make a scene. Why waste you money on something like that when she's going to write one herself?!!?!
anyone here? APRIL
6:00 eastern time
heyy evrabuddddy XD i got the memo bout hp day. T-minus 10 minutes
IM SOOO EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!
6 minutes
5 minutes
hey did everyone go out for halloween?
WHOOOOOO Yeah!! I was a cat!!! Hbu?
mine was terrible least i got candy
HAPPY HARRY POTTER DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!! yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!--------- ---how is everyone? who's on? WOO-HOO HARRY POTTER DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *party music*
YIPPIE!! ITA ARIVED!!
Happy HP day everybody!! *Hands out cake that she made* Okkkaayy I admit ti, I bought it, didn't make it lol
haha i was gothic, but it wasnt that good a costume.... i just wore red and black and a lot of black makeup...... my mom told me i looked like a "street walker". i didnt get that at first cuz i was like, um im trickortreating so yeh im gonna be walking in the street and then she explained to me. but she let me go out anyway. haha and then i went to my friends house and we watched ghost hunters and i got soooooooooo scared. haha so that was my entire nite in a nutshell..... anyway HAPPY HP DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!! XD XD
*becky walks in with cheesecake and brownies* HIYA EVERYONE! HAPPY HARRY POTTER DAY!!! *runs over to give a hug to Ari*
*looks at ari/april in shock* HP DAY!!! well this chesecake is great!!
Ha nice ari so hows everyone been?? I Have COOKIES!!
FIRSTLY, LET'S GIVING THANKS TO HARRY POTTER. IF IT WASN'T FOR HIM AND RON,HERMIONE,GINNY,HAGRID ,DUMBLEDORE,ALL THE WEASLEYS, AND WHOEVER ELSE, WE WOULD NOT HAVE THIS GREAT WEBSITE AND FANDOM TO BE APART OF. ALL HAIL JKR, AND ALL HAIL THE GREATEST SERIES: HARRY POTTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!
April---- *wipes tears of shame* Im sorry i ve dissapointed everyone:( lol. * gives thanks* :)
'Ere, 'ere Felix! *raises glass* hiya remi and rob! i am doing good, how are you guys?
well right now i am currently putting a cheesecake in the blender to make cheesecake milkshakes wait oh... *screams as the top of the blender pos off and peices of cheesckake fly evrywhere* and thanks to hp!!!
I'M GOOD, BEEN WAITING FOR THIS ALL DAY. Wait, let me turn off caps lock. lol. I was santa cluase for halloween. Oh and let me ask everyone, how did you get into Harry Potter? I'll tell you in my next comment :)
Yes ear ear!! I'm good... And i would like to add that if JKR had never invented Harry potter we would've never had mugglenet and without mugglenet we wouldn't be here celebrating and i wouldn't have such great mugglenet friends like you guys!!! GROUP HUG!! *virtually hugs everyone super tightly*
HAPPY HARRY POTTER DAY! :] :P hey becky and everyone else !
I dunno, I just started reading the books in grade 1 cos Marie used to read them and then I got addicted at the first word!
well... i was 1 when the first book came out so... i first saw the movies [poa and cos] and my sister sort of liked them. i first just flipped trough them but then 3 years ago i officially read the first 3 all in one day and then the 4th and 5 th one 2 days later i then became officially addicted!!!!
Me too actually i started reading in 2nd grade when i got SS from my grandma who go it from a Borders store by accident and with in an instant those books became my one true love!
hiya hpfanx!!!! april i emailed you back. alright heres my story, when HP came out i was in high school and had no interest in it. i thought it was a kids book. but then i saw SS on HBO and really liked it, so i went and saw COS in theaters. during the summer of 2003 i went shopping for some beach reading. I saw the HP books in the front of the store(OOTP was coming out soon) and said hey i like the movies and the books are always better, so i picked up the first two for my vacation. i went home and had the first one finished before we even left, so i ran out and got POA and went on vaca. I finished COS and POA while on vaca and made my family drive to a city that had a Kmart so i could buy GOF. When I got back home i picked OOTP and havent put them down since. :-) (sorry that was rather long!) oh i only had one book spoiled for me. HBP i had heard rumors of Dumbledores death before the book came out.
i knew about harry potter for a while b/c my sister obsesed over them. and by like the 2nd grade she started raeding them to me and ever since i've been hoooked :P
i started reading them when my bro was reading them. haha my mom thought there was a problem with him cuz he never read ever. like he could, he just didnt. and she thought that wasnt normal. so she heard about hp i think around after the 2nd book came out and how kids loved them even if they did like books so she bought them for him and i kinda picked them up instead and after that we bought the rest like as soon as they came out. so ikinda grew up with them *smiles nostalgicly*
YES!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you jk rowling!!!!!!!!! ok, so my hp obsession started on a cold, foggy ni-. jk lol. Well actually when I was 7, my best friend (who now lives in california) asked me if I wanted to go see sorcerers stone for his b-day party. I was like, uh no. I was too critical of books at the time, and also I was a little stupid too. lol anyway, I say it anyway, and I loved it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I bought the first book and read it. The I got the second book and loved it too. Then for christmas I got the 3rd book. LOVED IT. The 4th book i think was already out, so i got it LOVED IT also. Then, there was the slightly long gap between 4-5, but when OotP came out, I got it the same day. By then, I was hooked. I did the same thing for book 6. For book seven, I went at the midnight party. IT WAS AWSOME, and DH RULED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
did i say poa? i meant ss now how did everyone become a cheesecakian i became one for 3 monts and i have the page i became a cheesecakian saved on my favorires!!!!!! http://www.mugglenet.com/ app/news/show/1171/page/4
I think you spellen nostalgicly wrong marisa lol. Its ok , i suck at spelling too. :D
I think you spellen nostalgicly wrong marisa lol. Its ok , i suck at spelling too. :D
Hi cant stay lbut i wanted 2 say happy hp day 2 everyone-g2g bye but ill be back!
lol thats so cool rob! i dont remember the date or anything, but Ari was the first one to talk to me on here and be nice and i saw her talking to dannyrob and hallowsaint and i thought they were freaking hilarious. they mentioned being a cheesecakian and asked how i could be one too. i definitely wasnt the first one after those three, but the group was rather small when i joined.
Aw iI remeber becoming a cheesecakian!! Ari and me were talking then she told me to go down to the sencound post where most of you guys were!! I rember it like it was yesterday *tear*
august 10 2007 a great day!!!!!!!! except aberforth came on and started insulting us
I actually don't like cheesecake. I like cheeseburgers though. Oh and when did you guys find MuggleNet?
I found mN a loooon gtime ago, but I found the comments board only on July 3 in the London premiere. THen Marie and Ari found it afterwards :D
I found mugglenet by accident actually i google something about harry potter and mugglenet came up!! So i signed up and with in a few days i was a cheesecakian!!
April, where is Ari??? i cant remember when i found MN..... i know i have been checking it for over a year or two, but i didnt start checking it regularly til this spring.
i knew about mugglenet for like ever cuz my sister told me about it, but i never really bothereed goin on it much. and i was tlkin to danny and ari when i first found out about cheesecakians
early 2007 i didnt become a cheesecakian till months later i dont remember how i found it
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