US judge halts Harry Potter lexicon (From Haringey Independent)

US judge halts Harry Potter lexicon

7:29pm Monday 8th September 2008

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Harry Potter author JK Rowling has won her claim that a fan in the US violated her copyright with plans to publish a Potter encyclopaedia.

Judge Robert Patterson, sitting in New York, said that Rowling had proven that Steven Vander Ark's Harry Potter Lexicon would cause her irreparable harm as a writer.

Rowling sued Michigan-based RDR Books last year to stop publication of the lexicon.

Vander Ark runs the popular Harry Potter Lexicon website.

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