Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. v. RDR Books York trial attorney, David Hammer. Ms. Hasse then asked a group of intellectual property lawyers at Stanford Law School to help defend RDR Books' right to publish. Fair Use Project Executive Director Anthony Falzone said the Lexicon is protected by U.S. law which has long given people "the right to create reference guides that discuss literary works, comment on them and make them more accessible." On 16 January 2008, Rowling and Warner Bros. filed their full 1,100 page complaint against RDR Books, claiming that the book compiles and repackages Ms. Rowling's fictional facts derived wholesale from the Harry Potter works
The Harry Potter Lexicon appropriates too much of Rowling's creative work for its purposes as a reference guide." In December, 2008, a modified (and shorter) version of Vander Ark's Lexicon was approved for publication and was released January 16, 2009 as "The Lexicon: An Unauthorized Guide to Harry Potter Fiction". The Harry Potter Lexicon The Harry Potter Lexicon is a fan-created online encyclopedia of the "Harry Potter" series. The site was created by school librarian Steve Vander Ark. It contains detailed information for all seven published "Harry Potter" books. The Lexicon lists characters, places, creatures, spells, potions and magical devices, as well as analyzing