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The HARRY POTTER fan who lost his court battle to publish an unauthorised guide to the franchise has announced plans to release a revised version of the project next year (09).
Steven Vander Ark said on Friday (28Nov08) that RDR Books will publish his Harry Potter Lexicon on 12 January (09), insisting the new version meets specifications laid out in the September (08) court ruling.
The 400-page project is an unauthorised guide to the seven novels written by J.K. Rowling, and is a print version of the online encyclopedia he launched in 2000.
A New York federal judge ruled in favour of Rowling in September (08), permanently blocking publication of the guide and awarding Rowling and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. $6,750 (£4,619) in statutory damages.
Rowling reportedly declined to agree to earlier offers made by Vander Ark to revise the book and remove any offending or copyrighted passages before publishing the reference guide.

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