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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]
Although she writes under the pen name J. K. Rowling, before her remarriage her name was Joanne Rowling, [2] or Jo. [3] At birth, she had no middle name. [2] Staff at Bloomsbury Publishing suggested that she use two initials rather than her full name, anticipating that young boys – their target audience – would not want to read a book written by a woman. [2]
Since first coming to wide notice in the late 1990s, the Harry Potter book series by J. K. Rowling has been the subject of a number of legal disputes. Rowling, her various publishers and Time Warner , the owner of the rights to the Harry Potter films , have taken numerous legal actions to protect their copyrights, and also have fielded ...
Earlier this week, J.K. Rowling announced that Harry and the Cursed Child would premiere on the British stage in 2016 at the Palace Theatre on London's West End. Everyone got excited and began to ...
J.K. Rowling Karwai Tang/WireImage Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has dared police to arrest her as new hate crime laws come into effect in the U.K. The 58-year-old, who has regularly voiced her ...
In 2011, J. K. Rowling parted ways with Little and signed with his former business partner, Neil Blair. Little considered legal action against Rowling, but the dispute was settled out of court. The details remained confidential until 2021 in legal proceedings initiated by Blair against his former accountant, who advised him in the deal with Little.
J. K. Rowling Fred Duval/MEGA J. K. Rowling had a nonchalant response to criticism about her involvement on the upcoming Harry Potter TV series. “Dreadful news, which I feel duty bound to share ...
Troubled Blood begins in August 2013 and ends on Robin's 30th birthday on 9 October 2014. While visiting his terminally ill aunt Joan in Cornwall, Strike is approached by a woman who wants to hire Strike's firm to investigate the disappearance of her mother, Margot Bamborough, a general practitioner in Clerkenwell, London, almost 40 years previously, on 11 October 1974.