Ir you are going to take on Harry Potter in the courtroom, you better come armed with some legal magic. In the latest dispute over the literary phenomenon, a challenger who brought a copyright infringement suit against Potter publisher Scholastic Inc. has suffered a humiliating and devastating defeat.
In a ruling on Thursday, Southern District Judge Shira Scheidlin not only dismissed the lawsuit, which was brought by Paul Gregory Allen on behalf of the estate of writer Adrian Jacobs, but she offered a blistering critique of Ms. Jacobs’ work. She called Ms. Jacobs’ book—”The Adventures of Willy the Wizard—No 1 Livid Land”— “entirely devoid of a moral message or intellectual depth.”
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