Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. v. RDR Books 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. 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
Harry Potter (film series) light of its 20th anniversary, wrote that youth-targeted literature has since become "a go-to well of ideas for Hollywood," pointing to the successes of "The Twilight Saga" and "The Hunger Games". The series has spawned a vast volume of fan fiction, with nearly 600 thousand inspired stories catalogued. YouTube hosts many fan films, ranging from amateur productions to full-length films. Harry Potter (film series) Harry Potter is a British-American film series based on the "Harry Potter" novels by author J. K. Rowling. The series is distributed by Warner Bros. and consists of eight fantasy films, beginning with "Harry Potter and