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
Harry Potter influences and analogues Rowling has said on record multiple times that the name "Harry Potter" was derived in part from a childhood friend, Ian Potter, and in part from her favourite male name, Harry. On 13 April 2008, "The Mail on Sunday" wrote a news article claiming that Warner Bros. had begun a legal action against Buechler; however, the story was denied and lawyers for Rowling demanded the article be removed. On 14 April 2008, John Buechler's partner in the "Troll" remake, Peter Davy, said about "Harry Potter", "In John's opinion, he created the first Harry Potter. J.K. Rowling says the idea just