warner bros. owns the movie rights to harry potter.
who owns the movie rights to harry potter?
warner bros.
in november 2007, "the scotsman" reported that rowling had threatened legal action against american computer programmer g. norman lippert for allegedly violating her intellectual property rights by producing and publishing the online novel, "james potter and the hall of elders' crossing", an unofficial and unauthorised continuation of the "harry potter" series. written as a fan fiction project for lippert's wife and sons, the novel is set eighteen years after the end of the last official installment in the series, "harry potter and the deathly hallows", and describes the adventures of harry potter's son, james sirius potter, during his first year at hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry. a specialist in intellectual property law at strathclyde university commented that, "if an insubstantial character from a novel is taken and built up by another author in a new story, that can be a defence against copyright infringements." however, after lippert offered rowling an advance copy of the novel, rowling dismissed her threat and said she supported the novel and any others like it. lippert subsequently produced a sequel, "james potter and the curse of the gatekeeper". after the novel first appeared online in early november 2007, some "harry potter" fans on the internet initially speculated that the site might be part of an elaborate viral marketing campaign for an official continuation or spinoff of "harry potter", one either written or at least approved by rowling herself. on 9 november 2007, rowling's agent neil blair denied that rowling was in any way involved with the purported project, and warner bros., the studio which owns the rights to the "harry potter" film series, denied that the novel was in any way connected to the official "harry potter" franchise.
legal disputes over the harry potter series
due to its worldwide fame, "harry potter and the deathly hallows" has been translated into many languages. the first translation to be released was the ukrainian translation, on 25 september 2007 (as "гаррі поттер і смертельні реліквії" – "harry potter i smertel'ni relikviji"). the swedish title of the book was revealed by rowling as "harry potter and the relics of death" ("harry potter och dödsrelikerna"), following a pre-release question from the swedish publisher about the difficulty of translating the two words ""deathly hallows"" without having read the book. this is also the title used for the french translation ("harry potter et les reliques de la mort"), the spanish translation ("harry potter y las reliquias de la muerte"), the dutch translation ("harry potter en de relieken van de dood") and the brazilian portuguese translation ("harry potter e as relíquias da morte"). the first polish translation was released with a new title: "harry potter i insygnia śmierci" – "harry potter and the insignia of death". the hindi translation "harry potter aur maut ke tohfe" (), which means "harry potter and the gifts of death", was released by manjul publication in india on 27 june 2008. the romanian version was released on 1 december 2007 using the title ("harry potter și talismanele morții").
harry potter and the deathly hallows