[HPFGU-OTChatter] Dutch Version of OoP Already Out?

[Heidi Tandy]

Someone seems to have confused the Dutch version of Tanya Grotter (which was translated from Russian, and which purports to be a parody) with Order of the Phoenix. 

Wow, that would now be a fun bit of "likelihood of confusion" evidence for jkr's team to use in court!

Heidi, giving no legal advice and only a smidge of ip-law analysis
-----Original Message-----
From: "erisedstraeh2002" <erisedstraeh2002 at yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 21:23:28 
To:HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Dutch Version of OoP Already Out?

Real-To:  "erisedstraeh2002" <erisedstraeh2002 at yahoo.com>

There is an article from the Pakistan Daily Times that (in addition 
to complaining mightily about the millions JKR has earned) states:

"And there will doubtless be many more millions to come in the months 
ahead from the sales and movie rights of her fifth Harry Potter book, 
which is due to hit the stands of the English-speaking world in June, 
though a Dutch-language version of the book came out a couple of 
months ago."

Here's the link:
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_12-5-2003_pg3_7

Is it true that a Dutch version of OoP came out months ago?  I've 
never heard this before.  Although, in addition to complaining about 
JKR's (IMO) well-earned riches, author Kaleem Omar alternates between 
referring to JKR as "Rowling" and "Rowland," so I'm not sure how much 
to trust the veracity of the statements he makes.

~Phyllis



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