Publishers to appeal ban on

  April 9, 2003 at 3:41 PM ET
      Godric's Hollow
 

This week, the Dutch and Russian publishers of the Tanya Grotter books by Dmitri Yemets will appeal an Amsterdam court's decision to stop publication of the books. Alexei Shekhov, spokesman for Russia's Eksmo Publishers, told this to Interfax on Wednesday.

On April 3, an Amsterdam court issued an injunction to ban publication of Dmitri Yemets's book "Tanya Grotter and the Magic Double Bass" by the Dutch Byblos Publishers. The court thus satisfied the suit by a British law firm which defended the interests of J. K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books, which said that it copied the Harry Potter story.

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