Harry Potter News

Tonight on Newsround on the

Sep 19, 2002

Posted by: John Admin

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Tonight on Newsround on the BBC, Lizo Mzimba is going to present his interview with JK Rowling – the only one she’s giving today! – about the Stouffer case (see below) and how Book V is going. You can read the preview here.

An article from website Law.com

Sep 18, 2002

Posted by: John Admin

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An article from website Law.com goes into more detail regarding today’s ruling on the Nancy Stouffer case.

May just sent us a

Sep 18, 2002

Posted by: John Admin

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May just sent us a link to an article where Chris Columbus discusses the lateness of book five. Perhaps even he doesn’t know how it’s going…

A smidge more on the

Sep 18, 2002

Posted by: John Admin

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A smidge more on the Stouffer matter from the Associated Press: Schwartz also questioned whether she created the “Larry Potter” character before Rowling’s series debuted. A title page and other materials supposedly dating back to the 1980s used technology not in existence at the time, he ruled. In addition, Schwartz found that Stouffer had produced …read more!

More on the recent court

Sep 18, 2002

Posted by: John Admin

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More on the recent court ruling against Nancy Stouffer from Bloomberg.co.uk: In his 36-page opinion, [U.S. District Judge Allen G. Schwartz] also ordered Stouffer to stop “making false representations to third parties indicating that she owns all rights in the ‘Muggle’ and ‘Muggles’ trademarks and copyrights,” or that Rowling violated those rights. Rowling said in …read more!

I just thought I’d add

Sep 18, 2002

Posted by: Melissa Anelli

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I just thought I’d add a very personal zip-ah-dee-doo-dah and congratulations on behalf of all of us here at The Leaky Cauldron regarding the Nancy Stouffer ruling. It’s about time this was settled and done with, and we’re glad to see it go down the right way.

It has been decided Thanks

Sep 18, 2002

Posted by: John Admin

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It has been decided Thanks to Chimene, we’ve learned that Yahoo posted an article about the resolution of the Nancy Stouffer vs JK Rowling (and Scholastic, and WB) case here. We’re going to try and hunt down the court’s ruling so I can see exactly what trademark and copyright cases the court cited (if anyone …read more!

St. Louis Today reports that

Sep 18, 2002

Posted by: John Admin

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St. Louis Today reports that “the most popular fictional boy-wizard ever created was supposed to have swamped bookstores this summer with volume 5 in the series, tentatively titled Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Or was it? It’s unclear whether a firm release date had been set, or whether it keeps getting pushed …read more!

Thanks to everyone who sent

Sep 17, 2002

Posted by: John Admin

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Thanks to everyone who sent us this article regarding Bloomsbury Publishing’s inability to announce a date for the launch of the fifth “Harry Potter” book. (BBC news is also carrying the story.) Website Bloomberg.co.uk says that “the fifth book in the Harry Potter book series won’t be published this year because author J.K. Rowling hasn’t …read more!

Okay, we have some testimonial

Sep 16, 2002

Posted by: Melissa Anelli

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Okay, we have some testimonial from the TV spots being shown on the WB: Terrell says: Whoa! Did you guys see the new “commercial” for HP2 on the WB during the season premiere of “Seventh Heaven”? It included shots of the Ford Anglia landing, Ron trying to cast a spell (“Eat slugs!”) on Malfoy, but …read more!



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