Lawsuit against 'Tanya Grotter' begins

  March 25, 2003 at 3:20 PM ET
      iharrypotter.net
 

A legal battle has started in an Amsterdam court in a case filed by JK Rowling against a Russian writer alleged to have stolen her ideas.

During three hours of dry legal argument, Russian author Dmitry Yemets was accused of "blatantly stealing" the Harry Potter story line, characters and plot for his books, which have already sold more than a million copies in Russia.

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