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Plagiarism Claims against J.K Rowling!
By Adam | February 18, 2010
The beloved author of the Harry Potter series has recently been mixed up in court proceedings regarding alleged plagiarism claims against herself.
It is alleged that she copied ideas from Adrian Jacob’s Willy the Wizard and incorporated them into Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
Rowling has of course strongly denied these allegations and has asked the court to dismiss the claims.
“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.”
She went on…
“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.”
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