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Case against J.K. Rowling extended to US
Published Wednesday, Jul 14 2010, 20:27 BST | By Clare Wiley
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Representatives of the late writer Adrian Jacobs's estate filed papers last year which claimed that the author approached Bloomsbury publishers in 1987, in an unsuccessful attempt to sell them his Willy the Wizard stories.
The lawsuit alleges that Rowling's Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is similar to Jacobs's The Adventures of Willy the Wizard – No 1 Livid Land.
Jacobs's estate has now filed another copyright infringement in a New York federal court against Scholastic Inc. It has demanded that the publishers recall all copies of that particular Harry Potter book and pay them all the profit gained from its sale.
According to WENN, Rowling has previously called the initial lawsuit "absurd".
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