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JK Rowling’s lawyers have broken up a planned Harry Potter-themed dinner party. Next they plan on kicking over a pile of sticks some Christian kids were making to burn a Hermione doll at. After that they’ll be going after the lucrative whistling-of-the-movie-score piracy. Listen, unless Big Mama Jo-Jo gets her cut, don’t nobody go wavin’ wands around here, see? We wouldn’t want any accidents to happen, now would we? So yous all just make like trees and get outta here before someone gets hoit. (Personally, I think public opinion on this would shift if the lawyers just sued her instead for loving marmite…)
The host, a woman known by the pseudonym Ms Marmite Lover, regularly holds themed evenings at her home which she has recently transformed into new dining experience “The Underground Restaurant”.
The not-for-profit event, which has been renamed “Generic Wizard Night”, was to have a menu of dandelion wine, pumpkin soup and Dumbledore’s favourite – mint humbugs. Guests would have been led down ‘Diagon Alley’ by the side of the house and been met by a portrait of the “Fat Lady” who would have demanded a password before they could be let in.
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October 27th, 2009 at 1:05 pm
Thank goodness JKR’s billion-dollar nest egg has been spared once again. This event might
have skimmed a couple hundred from her estate. Sure, it’s just a not-for-profit theme dinner, but this is a very slippery slope we have here. You know, the domino effect and all that.
October 27th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
George, did you actually read the article? Not only was Rowling’s name NEVER mentioned in conjunction with the cease & desist, they were Warner Bros’ lawyers (ie, not hers). She sold the film rights to WB — those rights aren’t hers to protect any longer.
Complain all you want about a company enforcing trademarks (which is an important thing for a corporation to do — failure to police trademarks is a quick way to lose them) but it’s unfair to tar a writer with something they had nothing to do with…
October 27th, 2009 at 5:56 pm
you lookin’ at me? i sed, you lookin’ at me?