The Harry Potter Lexicon claims copyright on all its own content - to the point of not being able to right-click to open a link in a new window due to nasty JavaScript. I think that's why they are to be sued. (I am not a lawyer. Though I was at a Harry Potter event with Lexicon's founder on Saturday and didn't notice him :P)

On 01/11/2007, Mathias Schindler mathias.schindler@gmail.com wrote:

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hIGNIcztySvpGhm95iGPhNL7ov1AD8SKHF7G1

Rowling Sues to Block Harry Potter Book

By DAVID B. CARUSO – 12 hours ago

NEW YORK (AP) — Author J.K. Rowling and the maker of the "Harry Potter" films are suing a small publisher in Michigan over its plans to release a book version of a popular Web site dedicated to the boy wizard.

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One may wonder what happens if someone prints out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Harry_Potter and its articles and sells it in a GFDL compliant way...

Mathias

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