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   Beefcake, Aug 26th, 2008 @ 2:54pm

   
   

   Big Copyright

   Of course, Comedy of Errors was Shakespeare. Good thing Disney hasn't figured out how to lock that one up or they'd be getting hit from both sides.

    

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   eleete, Aug 26th, 2008 @ 3:02pm

   
   

   Boundaries

   Hopefully India sees the clear distinction between the two and tells Rowlings to take a hike.
   "Hari, the lawsuit alleges, is too close to J.K.Rowling's Harry for comfort."
   I think she enjoys quite enough comfort as it is.
   She loves a good pissing contest like this, hopefully she ends up all wet ; )

    

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   Ashwin, Aug 26th, 2008 @ 3:35pm

   
   

   Obnoxious

   Of course, if this were the trend, then all the spoofs that keep getting made in Hollywood (Scary Movie, Meet the Spartans, etc...) which directly mock the originals would be in trouble. JK is getting obnoxious and too materialistic with her creations and might end up alienating a sect of people who have not read Harry Potter and were waiting for all the volumes to be out (and the crowd of tweens and teens to stop losing sleep and breath over it). Yeah, so I'm one. Wanna fight?

    

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   Bill, Aug 26th, 2008 @ 3:49pm

   
   

   all wet

   JK Rowling is a greedy bitch.
   I wonder if she'll cry to try and prove she's right this time?

    

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   Matt, Aug 26th, 2008 @ 4:02pm

   
   

   Hari Puttar: The giblets of spice

   Never underestimate an attempt for the rich to get richer. JK is pushing her fanbase away with all her greed. Like Hari Puttar has any influence on Harry Potter's fans anyway...
   
   This is pathetic.

    

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   Anonymous Coward, Aug 26th, 2008 @ 4:06pm

   
   

   Re: Obnoxious

   long ago I started encouraging people not to buy her books. if they want to read them I suggest getting them from the library or borrow my copies, there are some excellent series that got their start as parody and rowling seems to go after anything that get close to being somewhat, kinda similar. heck, a lot of stuff in Harry Potter isn't exactly original.

    

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   Anonymous Coward, Aug 26th, 2008 @ 4:21pm

   
   

   Really? Hairy Pooter? C'mon!

    

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   Petréa Mitchell, Aug 26th, 2008 @ 4:21pm

   
   

   WB, not JKR

   Once again, it's not J. K. Rowling going nuts with the lawsuits or threats thereof against movies which might vaguely resemble the Potter franchise, it's Warner Brothers.

    

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   Anonymous Coward, Aug 26th, 2008 @ 4:25pm

   
   

   wasn't there a news post about harry potter being used in a different book much before JKR .... maybe they read her mind before she published her books and she should sue them too or maybe those poor folks should sue her for copyright infringement ...
   
   besides shes too late ... as the article says ... hari is a very popular Indian name and being Indian and Punjabi .. I've actually used the words Hari Putar with my 13 year old son as a joke ... maybe i owe JKR some payments .. and i would have paid them too if i had not spent all my money on the stupid Hari Putar .... errrr...i mean Harry Potter .. books anyways ...

    

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    Anonymous Coward, Aug 26th, 2008 @ 4:36pm

    
    

    How Ironic

    Rowling is an idiot to defend her properties so vigorously when this is always looming in the distance: http://www.realmuggles.com/

     

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    Esahc (profile), Aug 26th, 2008 @ 4:38pm

    
    

    Dark Tower

    So is she going to sue Steven King for including Harry Potter references in the last three books of his Dark Tower series?
    
    I mean come on, JK is making herself a joke.

     

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    snooptug, Aug 26th, 2008 @ 4:45pm

    
    

    Anywhere there is money

    Anywhere there is money to be made off of an obscure idea that someone might be pissed off (or getting pissed on, as eleete would say) there will be lawyers more than willing to find a similarly obscure court case to set against the plaintiff for injury of some kind. That is true in any country or part of the world.

     

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    asd, Aug 26th, 2008 @ 4:54pm

    
    

    More like

    More like Harri ImJKRowlingAndNeedADustBusterForAllTheSandInMyVagina amirite?

     

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    Mike (profile), Aug 26th, 2008 @ 7:35pm

    
    

    Re: WB, not JKR

    Ugh. Accidentally published an earlier version of the post. The final version made it clear that it was WB, but we had a glitch and the wrong post published. I've replaced it now. Sorry about that.

     

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    Anonymous Coward, Aug 26th, 2008 @ 10:06pm

    
    

    while it may have been warner bros with the lawsuit, i'd have to believe jk rowling had something to do with it given toward her past precedents on suing anyone doin parody or tributes to the work, which i believe probably wasnt entirely hers. come on now i hardly believe you just think of this whole franchise on a train ride without inspiration from anywhere else. besides now the money is goin to recieve so much extra cash due to the "streisand effect" sp

     

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    Anonymous Coward, Aug 27th, 2008 @ 5:04am

    
    

    How can this not fall under fair use anyway? Hasn't WB ever gone down to the adult video store to see how many knockoffs of their movies are on the shelves? Geez, did anybody ever sue MAD Magazine for their movie parodies?

     

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    Anonymous Coward, Aug 27th, 2008 @ 6:38am

    
    

    JK Rowling is the Theif

    There is a movie from the 80s called Troll. It's about a boy named... Harry Potter Jr. that has to defeat a troll and other mythical creatures. It's being remade with Lindsey Lohan's sister. I wonder if Rowling will go after this one.

     

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    Rekrul, Aug 27th, 2008 @ 8:58am

    
    

    I'm still waiting for;
    
    Hairy Putter and the Philosopher's Bone
    Hairy Putter and the Chambermaid's Secrets
    Hairy Putter and the Prisoner of Azka-Bondage
    Hairy Putter and the Gonads of Fire
    Hairy Putter and the Orders of Miss Phoenix
    Hairy Putter and the Half-Bloodied Princess
    Hairy Putter and the Breathy Swallows
    
    Yes, I do need help. :)

     

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    Anonymous Coward, Aug 27th, 2008 @ 9:57am

    
    

    Re: Rekul

    I think most of those already exist on various fan-fiction sites....

     

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    waqas babar, Sep 26th, 2008 @ 4:38am

    
    

    India is one of the most copy-cat nations ever to exist in the world............... 87% of their films are a complete rip off from Hollywood ...... and 10% from cinema all around the world (irani , korean , etc ) only 3% are their orignal !
    
    Finally Hollywood has come to its sense and sued the Indian photocopier( Bollywood ) !
    leave alone the movies they blindly copy TV shows as well !
    
    1.)Are you smarter than a fifth grader - copied to - kya aap panchwi pass se teez hain
    
    2.)human tetris (Japanese) - copied to - hole in a wall
    
    3.)for a long time there has been an indian show named shararat which was about magic ...... then disney makes a show named wizards of waverly place with salena gomez in it...... so the indians turn the whole sharat thing just like selena gomez's show ......
    
    
    these are just simple examples i just gave in a minute .......actually there is a big long list of movies and Tv shows !!

     

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