In a lawsuit filed yesterday in a New York court, JK Rowling is attempting to ban the publishing of an unofficial Harry Potter encyclopedia.
The British author told the BBC of Steve Vander Ark’s project to publish the project through RDR Books: "I am very frustrated that a former fan has tried to co-opt my work for financial gain."
Rowling is planning to publish her own encyclopedia including material never seen in her books.
She said: "I believe that RDR‘s book constitutes a Harry Potter rip-off of the type I have spent years trying to prevent."
This is not the first injunction against the publication of Vander Ark’s Harry Potter encyclopedia. It was originally scheduled to be available to the public last October or November.
JK Rowling sold over 400 million copies world-wide of her Harry Potter books.