It's JK Rowling versus a fan over copyright issues

For a time, Harry Potter superfan Steven Vander Ark seemed to be living a geeky dream. His Web site was a hit among fellow fanatics. Rowling knew who he was and confessed that she occasionally used its online encyclopedia as a reference. But all that changed after a publishing company, RDR Books, announced it would release a print version of the lexicon. The author and Warner Bros sued them.