Melbourne
(ANI):
A
US
federal
judge
has
dismissed
Harry
Potter
plagiarism
lawsuit.
It
was
alleged
that
the
wildly-successfully
JK
Rowling
books
were
plagiarised
from
a
story
from
a
little-known
British
author.
The
suit
filed
in
New
York
against
the
publisher
of
the
JK
Rowling
books
had
argued
the
stories
were
inspired
by
Adrian
Jacobs's
The
Adventures
of
Willy
the
Wizard
No.1
Livid
Land,
published
in
1987.
Judge
Shira
Sheindlin
wrote
that
there
were
major
differences
between
the
works,
contrary
to
claims
that
Rowling
had
borrowed
from
Jacobs'
book
for
Harry
Potter
and
the
Goblet
of
Fire.
"Indeed,
a
reading
of
the
works
unequivocally
confirms
that
they
are
distinctly
different
in
both
substance
and
style,
and
ultimately
engender
very
different
visceral
responses
from
their
readers," the
Daily
Telegraph
quoted
the
judge
as
saying
in
a
49-page
ruling.
"The
contrast
between
the
total
concept
and
feel
of
the
works
is
so
stark
that
any
serious
comparison
of
the
two
strains
credulity." Scholastic,
the
US
publisher
for
the
Potter
series,
said
it
was
satisfied
by
the
dismissal
of
the
suit
from
the
estate
of
Jacobs.
"The
court's
swift
dismissal
supports
our
position
that
the
case
was
completely
without
merit
and
that
comparing
Willy
the
Wizard
to
the
Harry
Potter
series
was
absurd," company
spokesman
Kyle
Good
said.
"Judge
Scheindlin
clearly
agreed
...
Scholastic
will
continue
to
vigorously
defend
any
such
frivolous
claims
challenging
the
originality
of
Harry
Potter
and
the
brilliant
imagination
of
its
author,
JK
Rowling,"
Good
added.