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"The Great Larry Potter Rip-Off"

Does anyone know what became of this news story? I never found out the court judgement in the end...

[URL]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/1224264.stm[/URL]

Well, this lawsuit probably never came about properly: Evidence of plageurism is patchy, if there actually is any. It's just a co-incidence that the two authors had similar thoughts on use of wording.

Come to think of it, didn't Rowling try to sue that Russian who copied the Harry Potter series in several ways to create something new?

I've not much of a problem with it.

It's just, surely it'd save you time if you simply read the one sentence in the original post, rather than type up a five sentence reply.

I don't read the posts, i see a link and click it. Sue me.

magnius wrote:
> Does anyone know what became of this news story? I never found out the
> court judgement in the end...

That's a bit of an old story in't it?

"British author Rowling has become a cult figure among Harry Potter fans and a movie is being made from her first book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone."

Being made?

EDIT:

I could have just looked at the date which it was posted at the top -_-.

Yeah but she'd never be as dumb as to put LARRY Potter, would she?

I expect JK may have possibly read them in the past and been subconsiously influenced by them...it happens to us all...even some bands do that.

I'd agree with the publishers that the claims are absurd.

But hell, the Harry Potter books were never very original anyway.

Does anyone know what became of this news story? I never found out the court judgement in the end...

[URL]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/1224264.stm[/URL]