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Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. v. RDR Books
''Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. and J. K. Rowling v. RDR Books'', 575 F.Supp.2d 513 (SDNY 2008) is a copyright lawsuit brought on 31 October 2007 by the media company Warner Bros. and ''Harry Potter'' author J. K. Rowling against RDR Books, an independent publishing company based in Muskegon, Michigan.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.rdrbooks.com/ )〕 Lawyers for Rowling and Time Warner argued that RDR's attempt to publish for profit a print facsimile of ''The Harry Potter Lexicon'', a free online guide to the ''Harry Potter'' fictional universe, constituted an infringement of their copyright and was not protected by the affirmative defense of fair use. The trial was held from 14–17 April 2008 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. In September 2008, the court ruled in Rowling's favor, and publication of the book was blocked. In 2009, RDR Books released an edited volume, eliminating the problematic long quotes found to be infringing.
==Origins==
In 2000, Steve Vander Ark, a librarian from Grand Rapids, Michigan, created the Harry Potter Lexicon, an online encyclopedia of the Harry Potter book series that collected and reorganized various facts from the novels into a searchable form. The Lexicon, which is non-profit, with only its operations paid for by advertising, quickly became a favorite for fans of the books, including Rowling herself, who claimed on her website that "I have been known to sneak into an internet cafe while out writing and check a fact rather than go into a bookshop and buy a copy of ''Harry Potter'', which is embarrassing."〔
In August 2007, Vander Ark was contacted by Roger Rapoport, President of RDR Books, and asked about the possibility of publishing a for-profit print version of the site. Although Vander Ark had previously claimed he had no interest in doing so, Rapoport assured Vander Ark that such a publication would be legal. To further pacify Vander Ark's concerns, he added an addendum to the contract that stated that RDR Books would act to defend him in any future lawsuits.〔
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