According to USA Today, Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has won her claim that a fan violated her copyright with his plans to publish a Potter encyclopedia.

Rowling filed a lawsuit against RDR Books, a Michigan-based company, last year over the Harry Potter Lexicon on the grounds that it lifted huge portions of her stories without adding any original thought or interpretation. She called the project "wholesale theft of 17 years of my hard work".

Judge Robert Patterson said in a ruling Monday that Rowling had proven that

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