Harry Potter author JK Rowling ‘saddened’ by copyright lawsuit

Harry Potter author JK Rowling has been named in a lawsuit which accuses her of stealing ideas for one of her best sellers from another British children’s author.

An action raised in the High Court of England has named her as a defendent in a breach of copyright case against Bloomsbury Publishing, raised by the estate of writer Adrian Jacobs.

Ms Rowling said on Thursday she was “saddened” by the claims, which were “without merit”.

Australian representatives for the late children’s author say ideas from his 1987 book, ‘The Adventures of Willy the Wizard – No 1 Livid Land’, were stolen and used in ‘Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire’.

In ‘The Adventures of Willy The Wizard’, Mr Jacobs wrote of a dual world inhabited partly by wizards, with their own colleges, hospitals, transport and prisons.

The High Court Writ also claims the book talks of a year of wizard contests, similar to ‘The Triwizard Tournament’ which appears in the famous Potter tome.

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