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On 31 October 2007, Warner Bros. and Rowling sued RDR Books to block the book's publication. [3] Rowling, who previously had a good relationship with Vander Ark, reiterated on her website that she plans to write a Harry Potter encyclopedia, and that the publication of a similar book before her own would hurt the proceeds of the official encyclopedia, which she plans to give to charity. [4]
In July 2007, a dispute arose between Harry Potter's British publisher, Bloomsbury, and Asda, a British supermarket chain owned by the US corporation Wal-Mart. On 15 July, a week before the release of the final Harry Potter novel, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Asda issued a press release accusing Bloomsbury of unfairly fixing their prices.
The Lexicon is credited as creating one of the first timelines of all events occurring in the Harry Potter universe. A similar timeline of events was adopted by Warner Bros. for inclusion with their Harry Potter film DVDs, and was accepted by author J. K. Rowling as conforming to her works. The Lexicon is a winner of J. K. Rowling's Fan Site Award.
Supporting a U.K. legal case: 'Sex is real' The mainstream war between trans activists/allies and Rowling kicked off in December 2019, when the author offered her public support to Maya Forstater ...
An accounting statement obtained by Deadline for Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix, released in 2007 demonstrates the blatant disparity between truth and accounting. Though the film ...
The Harry Potter book series by J. K. Rowling has resulted in numerous controversies over its publication and content, primarily in the realms of law and religion. For further information see: Religious debates over the Harry Potter series; Legal disputes over the Harry Potter series; Politics of Harry Potter; Harry Potter influences and analogues
Prince Harry ’s lawsuit accusing the publisher of The Sun tabloid of unlawfully snooping on him can go to trial, but not on allegations of phone hacking, a High Court judge ruled Thursday. The ...
Science fiction author Orson Scott Card, in a fierce editorial in response to Rowling's copyright lawsuit against the Harry Potter Lexicon, claimed that her assertion that she had had her "words stolen" was rendered moot by the fact that he could draw numerous comparisons between her books and his own 1985 novel Ender's Game; in his words,