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| Rowling arrives for Potter case | |
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| Author JK Rowling has arrived at a New York court to testify over plans to publish an unofficial Harry Potter encyclopaedia. | |
| The contested guidebook, Harry Potter Lexicon, is based on material from an internet fan site of the same name. | The contested guidebook, Harry Potter Lexicon, is based on material from an internet fan site of the same name. |
| Rowling claims the book violates her intellectual property rights. | Rowling claims the book violates her intellectual property rights. |
| The author is suing writer Steve Vander Ark and his publisher RDR Books and the case is scheduled to last for most of the week. | The author is suing writer Steve Vander Ark and his publisher RDR Books and the case is scheduled to last for most of the week. |
| In court papers filed before the trial, the author said she was "deeply troubled" by plans to turn the Lexicon website into a book. | In court papers filed before the trial, the author said she was "deeply troubled" by plans to turn the Lexicon website into a book. |
| RDR's book constitutes a Harry Potter rip-off of the type I have spent years trying to prevent JK Rowling | |
| "RDR's book constitutes a Harry Potter rip-off of the type I have spent years trying to prevent," she said. | "RDR's book constitutes a Harry Potter rip-off of the type I have spent years trying to prevent," she said. |
| The author has said she plans to write her own definitive Harry Potter encyclopaedia, including material that did not make it into the seven novels. | The author has said she plans to write her own definitive Harry Potter encyclopaedia, including material that did not make it into the seven novels. |
| "If RDR's position is accepted, it will undoubtedly have a significant, negative impact on the freedoms enjoyed by genuine fans on the internet," she said. | "If RDR's position is accepted, it will undoubtedly have a significant, negative impact on the freedoms enjoyed by genuine fans on the internet," she said. |
| Literary warning | Literary warning |
| RDR Books said Rowling was seeking to "claim a monopoly on the right to publish literary reference guides, and other non-academic research, relating to her own fiction". | RDR Books said Rowling was seeking to "claim a monopoly on the right to publish literary reference guides, and other non-academic research, relating to her own fiction". |
| If accepted, it said, her injunction "would dramatically extend the reach of copyright protection and eliminate an entire genre of literary supplements - third party reference guides to fiction". | If accepted, it said, her injunction "would dramatically extend the reach of copyright protection and eliminate an entire genre of literary supplements - third party reference guides to fiction". |
| "By extension, it would threaten not just reference guides, but encyclopaedias, glossaries, indexes and other tools that provide useful information about copyrighted works." | "By extension, it would threaten not just reference guides, but encyclopaedias, glossaries, indexes and other tools that provide useful information about copyrighted works." |
| The case will be heard by Judge Robert P Patterson without a jury at US District Court in Manhattan. |