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Understanding The Harry Potter Injunction: Protecting Copyright and Confidential Information
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Date: October 1 2005 |
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On July 9, 2005, the Supreme Court of British Columbia granted Raincoast Books and Bloomsbury, the Canadian publishers of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the sixth in the series, and J. K. Rowling, the author, a court order restraining anyone who had obtained an early copy of the book ("John/Jane Does") and everyone who received notice of the order from disclosing any information from the book to anyone else before the international release date of 12:01 a.m. local time on July 16, 2005. The injunction order, wide in its scope, also prohibited, among other things, reading or making any use of the book before that time and required the temporary return of the books to Raincoast until the release date. How did this court order come about? And what was the legal basis of the order?...
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