law.com: Judge Throws Out 'Harry Potter' Copyright Suit
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A federal judge has sanctioned an author $50,000 for submitting false evidence in an unsuccessful copyright lawsuit against the publisher of the blockbuster "Harry Potter" series of children's books.
Southern District of New York Judge Allen G. Schwartz found that Nancy Stouffer had knowingly submitted fraudulent documents to the court in an attempt to bolster claims that the author of the "Harry Potter" series, J.K. Rowling, copied several ideas from Stouffer's unsuccessful children's stories.
Judge Schwartz dismissed, with prejudice, the copyright and trademark infringement claims against Rowling and Scholastic Inc., the books' publisher, and ordered Stouffer to pay her opponents' attorney fees and costs, plus $50,000 in sanctions.
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I remember reading about this a while back. Pretty desparate of Stouffer, to forge "evidence."
Posted by Lee at September 19, 2002 12:02 AMI really love your books, and I hope to be a great writer like you one day. Even though I can not be in the movies, I still pretend I am. I love the way you know how to describe scenes of action, and how you express emotion. Good luck with the upcoming book!
Sincerely,
Rebecca Staley
i have enjoyed all five books immensely. i've read them about three times each. and i anxiously wait for book six to come out onto the market. At the school where i work at, alot of our students there relate to harry potter (age and thoughts rangewise) there were alot of tears shed for potter's feelings and for sirius' demise. one of my daughter's has one of the movies memorized word by word. she fantazises of being in one of the potter movies. excellent writing on your part.
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