Harry Potter plagiarism! Absurd says JK Rowling
JK Rowling today hits back at claims of
plagiarism against her Harry Potter books as ”absurd” and
“unfounded”.
Yesterday the multi-millionaire writer was named in a lawsuit
claiming she stole ideas from another British author for her tales
about the teenage wizard.
There is an ongoing law suite going on. The estate of the late
Adrian Jacobs is suing Rowling’s publisher ‘Bloomsbury Publishing
PLC’ for copyright infringement. Rowling was added as a
defendant.
Adrian Jacobs representatives claim Harry Potter And The Goblet of
Fire book copied a number of ideas from of one of Jacobs' books
about ‘The Adventures Of Willy the Wizard No 1: Livid Land’.
Rowling hit back today saying she had never heard of Jacobs, let
alone read the book.
JK is applying to the court to have the case dismissed for holding
no merit.
She said: "I am saddened that yet another claim has been made that
I have taken material from another source to write Harry. The fact
is I had never heard of the author or the book before the first
accusation by those connected to the author's estate in 2004; I
have certainly never read the book. The claims that are made are
not only unfounded but absurd and I am disappointed that I, and my
UK publisher Bloomsbury, are put in a position to have to defend
ourselves. We will be applying to the Court immediately for a
ruling that the claim is without merit and should therefore be
dismissed without delay".
Max Markson, a Sydney agent who represents Paul Allen, the trustee
of the estate of the writer, who died in 1997, said: "I estimate
it's a billion-dollar case”. He also said that the estate was
seeking legal advice as to whether the Harry Potter films and soon
to be opened Harry Potter theme park breached copyright law.
The claims by Jacobs estate were first made in 2004 and Bloomsbury
denied the allegations, calling them “unfounded and untrue”.
Bloomsbury has always said it was unable to identify any
similarities between the text of the Jacobs and Rowlings book.
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