Judge halts Potter lexicon

Harry Potter author JK Rowling today won her claim that a fan in the US violated her copyright with plans to publish a Potter encyclopaedia.

Judge Robert Patterson, sitting in New York, said that Rowling had proven that Steven Vander Ark’s 'Harry Potter Lexicon' would cause her irreparable harm as a writer.

Rowling sued Michigan-based RDR Books last year to stop publication of the lexicon.

Vander Ark runs the popular Harry Potter Lexicon website.