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Publisher to appeal HP encyclopedia decision
US publisher RDR Books, which lost its bid to print the Harry Potter encyclopedia by Steven Vander Ark, will appeal a federal judge's decision that the book constituted copyright infringement on author JK Rowling, court records show.
According to the Muskegon Chronicle, lawyers for RDR's Roger Rapoport last week filed a notice of appeal seeking to overturn a judge's ruling.
US District Judge Robert P Patterson ruled in September that the publication of the Rapoport and Vander Ark encyclopedia would cause Potter irreparable harm.
Patterson noted reference materials generally are useful to the public but that in this case, Vander Ark went too far.
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