Harry Potter publisher denies plagiarism claim

LONDON:The situation becomes very interesting and amazing when Bloomsbury Publishing denid allegations that author J.K. RowlingJ.K. Rowling copied ‘substantial parts on ’ of a book by another children’s author when she wrote ‘Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire’. The book, published in 2000, was the fourth instalment of the hugely successful boy wizard Harry Potter series that has sold more than 400 million copies worldwide and been turned into a multi-billion-dollar film franchise. ‘The allegations of plagiarism made today, Monday 15 June 2009, by the Estate of Adrian Jacobs are unfounded, unsubstantiated and untrue,’ said a statement from Bloomsbury, which publishes Harry Potter in Britain. ‘This claim is without merit and will be defended vigorously.’ In an earlier statement, Jacobs’ estate said that it had issued proceedings at London’s High Court against Bloomsbury Publishing Plc for copyright infringement. ‘It is alleged that all of these are concepts first created by Adrian Jacobs in Willy the Wizard, some 10 years before J.K.Rowling first published any of the Harry Potter novels and 13 years before Goblet of Fire was published.’ ‘The claim was unable to identify any text in the Harry Potter books which was said to copy Willy the Wizard.’ — So harry potter was on the right path and claim was totally wrong.(H3)