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Wed 09 Sep 2008Harry Potter fan book halted
US:A US judge has halted publication of an unofficial encyclopedic companion to the popular Harry Potter book series in a copyright case author JK Rowling argued would threaten other writers.
Judge Robert Patterson in the US District Court in Manhattan wrote in his opinion that an independent US publisher, RDR Books, had "failed to establish an affirmative defence of fair use" and that publication of The Harry Potter Lexiconshould not proceed.
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