This is strange.

Helen8 · Post by **Helen8** » Mon Jun 15, 2009 4:30 pm

Bloomsbury sued in Harry Potter copyright claim

Publisher Bloomsbury is being sued by the estate of English children's writer Adrian Jacobs over claims that JK Rowling copied his work in one of her Harry Potter books.

It believes Rowling used “substantial parts” of Jacobs’ "The Adventures of Willy the Wizard-No 1 Livid Land" in “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”.

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Post by **Gillian** » Mon Jun 15, 2009 5:38 pm

Bloomsbury fires back ...

In its response, Bloomsbury said Rowling "had never heard of Adrian Jacobs nor seen, read or heard of his book Willy the Wizard until this claim was first made in 2004, almost seven years after the publication of the first book in the highly publicized Harry Potter series.

"Willy the Wizard is a very insubstantial booklet running to 36 pages which had very limited distribution. The central character of Willy the Wizard is not a young wizard and the book does not revolve around a wizard school."

Bloomsbury added that the claim was first made in 2004 by solicitors acting on behalf of Jacobs' son, who was the representative of his father's estate.

"The claim was unable to identify any text in the Harry Potter books which was said to copy Willy the Wizard."

Reuters

Helen8 · Post by **Helen8** » Mon Jun 15, 2009 9:59 pm

Oh, good!