‘Harry Potter’ Defeats ‘Tanya Grotter’ in Court

J.K. Rowling won a court battle on Thursday to block the Dutch publication of a Russian novel about a girl wizard called “Tanya Grotter” after arguing it copied one of Rowling’s bestsellers. Rowling asked an Amsterdam court to stop publication of the first Western edition of “The Magic Double Bass” by Dmitry Yemets, which her lawyer says copies her hit book “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.” Yemets said his book was a parody. Full Story.