“Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling has been slapped with yet another plagiarism suit.
Her name has just been added to a lawsuit against her publishers in a London court by the estate of children’s book author Adrian Jacobs.
On Thursday Rowling called the claim “unfounded” and “absurd,” and called for the case to be dismissed.
The suit claims that she lifted ideas like wizard contests, prisons, hospitals and colleges from Jacobs’ 1987 book, “The Adventures of Willy the Wizard: No. 1 Livid Land” for “Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire.”
The Jacobs estate initially thought it was too late to sue Rowling, since “Goblet of Fire,” was published in 2000, and first set out to sue only Rowling’s publisher and agent. But they claim that they’ve discovered “legal cause of action against [Rowling within the last six years,” the Christian Science Monitor reports.
“I have certainly never read the book,” Rowling said of “Willy the Wizard.”
Rowling has had to fight off plagiarism charges before. In 2002, author Nancy Stouffer claimed in one prominent case that her character “Larry Potter” closely resembled Harry Potter. Stouffer lost the case and a later appeal.
J.K. RowlingAdrian JacobsHarry PotterLawIntellectual PropertyCrime and LawCivil TrialsTrialsNancy StoufferLondonLarry PotterThe Christian Science Monitor
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