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Be careful, It seems that Ms Rawl*** is extremely jealous of her creation and will threaten to sue anyone that comes anywhere near infringing on the Hog*** name and anything to do with it. There was a mod started some time back. After putting in many hours of work on it they actually got a cease and desist order from her lawyers threatening a suit. They have even gone after fan fiction writers who were becoming too popular.

 

I recommend changing the names, locations and anything else that is readily identifiable with her works in order to avoid inane legal stupidities perpetuated by overzealous lawyers. The excuse they gave was that she has authorized some game company to use the books to make a game, and anything done by a modder 'might' infringe and therefore cause a loss of income. In other words, greed.

 

The basic ideas, a magic school run by a bumbling old magician and with instructors of varying competence is actually a common theme in fantasy literature. So as long as it dosn't use her names and places it should be OK, but it looses quite a bit when it can't be associated with the books.

 

Check out some of it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_dispute...y_Potter_series

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20091026/ten-le...pp-8a3eada.html

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/feb2001/pott-f28.shtm

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/worl...ticle511189.ece

 

And these are just the big ones.

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