Warner Bros has stopped a London single mother from hosting a Harry Potter-themed Hallowe’en dinner at her house.
The Hollywood studio sent the woman, who runs a supper club from her home, a terse letter warning her on copyright infringment of the Potter series, written by JK Rowling.
The woman advertised Harry Potter Night dinners on her blog, selling tickets for £25 each. Her Potter-inspired menu included butterbeer, dandelion wine, pumpkin soup, mint humbugs and cauldron cakes.
The studio informed the woman that it was delighted she was a fan of Harry Potter but that “no one may copy, license, exhibit, reproduce or otherwise trade on the Harry Potter Properties without the prior authorisation and consent of Warner”.
The woman changed the name of her already sold-out dinners on Friday and Saturday nights to Generic Wizard Night.
No comments yet.
RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI