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| | Nancy Stouffer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Stouffer, is an author who wrote children's books in the 1980s. | | | The Muggles in Stouffer's book are different from those in Rowling's. | | | Stouffer's web site [1] advertises a $100 reward for an original edition that will prove that it did appear. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Stouffer
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| | Stouffer, 2002 USDL 17531 |
| | Stouffer concedes that these additional words were added to the title pages of the booklets after the booklets were originally printed, although she does not know exactly when the words were added or by what printing method. | | | Stouffer attributes this discrepancy in typeface to the fact that she continued to revise the story into the 1990's. | | | Rather, by simply comparing the Harry Potter books to Stouffer's works, and by examining the supposed similarities between the works cited by Stouffer in her briefs, the Court is able to conclude that no reasonable juror could find a likelihood of confusion as to the source of the two parties' works. |
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http://www.authorslawyer.com/case/02USDL17531.html
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| | The Legend of Rah and the Muggles: An In-Depth Review |
| | Stouffer doesn't seem to have a grasp on what conversations she should convey (because they're interesting and advance the story) and which ones she should not (because they drag on, are annoying, and don't advance the story). | | | Stouffer claims that the publication and success of J. Rowling's Harry Potter series has prevented her from having her own book published (further suggesting that this edition, like the others, is self-published), mostly due to the confusion about the term "Muggles" but also because of a claimed similarity between the two plots. | | | It's pretty clear, when looking at Stouffer's website, that she considers this book and her other work to be quality literature, the kind of work that would be an asset to every child's library. |
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http://www.magespace.net/mugrev.html
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| | Review of Stauffer's Book |
| | Nancy Stouffer has been talking for months about what she considers suspicious similarities between her books and the Harry Potter books by J. Rowling. | | | Meant to be a children's tale, Stouffer's book is an excruciating mix of cliche, preachiness and just poor writing. | | | What moral lessons Stouffer wants to teach are lost in her graceless writing. |
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http://homepage.mac.com/kia/potter/review.html
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| | Muggle Versus Wizard |
| | Nancy Stouffer claims that J.K. Rowling, British author of the explosively popular Harry Potter books, lifted several names -- like Muggles and Potter -- and situations from Stouffer's self-published books in the 1980s, and fobbed them off as her own. | | | For her part, Rowling says she has never heard of Nancy Stouffer's books. | | | In the late 1980s, Stouffer says the books were selling so well and licensing agreements were flooding in at such a rate that she projected annual earnings of an astonishing $1 billion. |
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http://www.cesnur.org/2001/potter/march_13.htm
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| | Scholastic Inc. v. Stouffer |
| | Stouffer is the author of several works based on a set of characters called "Muggles," which were created by Stouffer, in particular The Legend of RAH and the Muggles, a children's book containing the Muggles characters which was first published in the 1980s. | | | Stouffer alleges that beginning in mid-1997, she contacted publishers and promoted her books and related merchandise, but that various publishers refused to consider her works because of a perceived likelihood of confusion with the Harry Potter books. | | | Rather, Stouffer asserts only that Landoll's interest in her works "inexplicably and mysteriously vanished." (Def.'s Mere. |
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http://pub.bna.com/ptcj/9911480.htm
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| | FindLaw Legal News - Lawyer News, Attorney News, Law News, Trial News, Bar News and More |
| | Stouffer created and wrote, among other intellectual properties, a number of children's books and book series, the most significant of which, for the purposes of this Complaint, is titled The Legend of RAH and the Muggles. | | | Throughout 1999 and to date, Stouffer has encountered the continued refusal of publishers, including Landoll, to consider her works because of the perceived likelihood of confusion and, in fact, confusion between her MUGGLES characters and the use of the term "Muggles" in the Harry Potter books. | | | Furthermore, the association of the MUGGLE and MUGGLES marks and Stouffer's characters with the witchcraft, wizardry, and mature themes of death and evil found in the Harry Potter books injures the reputation of Stouffer and her intellectual properties among certain consumers. |
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http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/jkrowling/stouffercmplnt.html
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| | the hogwarts wire |
| | Nancy Stouffer: I can't tell you how many times I've confronted this question. | | | Nancy Stouffer: At that time, as a matter of fact, and this is a very good question, someone filed suit against me for ownership of my trademark and copyrights, who was my investor at the time. | | | Nancy Stouffer: I really don't know how to answer that, but I'll say that the vast amounts of money that we invested in my property are literally thrown to the wind, because we're incapable of marketing our products over a period of time. |
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http://www.hogwartswire.com/stoufferchat.php
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| | Washingtonpost.com: Live Online |
| | Nancy Stouffer: A company I owned interest in published my books. | | | Nancy Stouffer: First of all, I didn't write coloring books. | | | Nancy Stouffer: Well, it would be if it wasn't for the fact that I predate her, in some cases by 20 years. |
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http://discuss.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/zforum/01/author_stouffer032801.htm
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| | Magical authors go to war on custody of Muggles |
| | Nancy Stouffer, who published The Legend of Rah and the Muggles in 1984, has filed suit in Pennsylvania accusing Ms Rowling of giving her characters "suspiciously similar" names and even stealing her now-famous term for humans who lack magical powers, Muggles. | | | But Nancy K. Stouffer of Camp Hill, Pa., argues in her federal lawsuit that ideas for the “Potter” series were lifted from her 1984 book “The Legend of Rah and Muggles,” which includes a character named Larry Potter. | | | Ms Stouffer points to other parallels between the Harry Potter books and her work, and suggests that Ms Rowling might have read her book while on a work-study exchange programme in the Baltimore area in 1987-88. |
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http://www.cesnur.org/recens/potter_019.htm
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| | Thurman House to Publish Stouffer Titles - 3/19/2001 - Publishers Weekly |
| | Thurman House, a newly formed publishing affiliate of the Baltimore book producer Ottenheimer Publishers, has reached an agreement with author Nancy Stouffer to republish The Legend of Rah and the Muggles as well as other Stouffer children's titles. | | | Hirsh hopes that the Stouffer titles will form the backbone of the newly formed Thurman House. | | | Stouffer contends that she first published a Muggles book in 1984 and trademarked the Muggles name in 1986 (News, Mar. 13, 2000). |
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http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA83600.html?pubdate=3/19/2001&display=archive
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| | Nancy Stouffer's Claims |
| | Nancy Stouffer, who wrote "The Legend Of RAH And The Muggles," is suing R.K. Rowling, Scolastic Publishing and Warner Brothers, charging that the Harry Potter series are plagerisms of her original work. | | | Stouffer claims to have sold 100,000 copies of her book in one week! | | | In conclusion, I think Harry Potter may, indeed, use some of the names from Stouffer's book. |
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http://homepage.mac.com/kia/potter/stouffer.html
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| | BBC NEWS Entertainment Rowling wins Potter plagiarism case |
| | Pennsylvania-based writer Nancy Stouffer claimed Rowling had lifted ideas from her own book The Legend of Rah and the Muggles and wanted to be recognised as Harry Potter's creator. | | | Ms Stouffer accused Rowling of lifting the term Muggles, a name given to non-magical humans in Harry Potter but used to describe mythical characters in her book which was published in the mid-80s. | | | In Stouffer's The Legend of Rah and the Muggles, which features a character named Larry Potter, the muggles are little people who care for two orphaned boys who magically turn their dark homeland into a happy place. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2268024.stm
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| | Blogcritics.org: Rowling Vindicated |
| | A federal court on Wednesday threw out author Nancy Stouffer's claims that Rowling, the author of the blockbuster Harry Potter (news - web sites) books, stole words and characters from Stouffer's books. | | | Stouffer had used the term to describe mythical characters in her books for children. | | | But the U.S. District Court for southern New York found not only that Rowling did not pilfer the muggles, but also that Stouffer had lied to the court and doctored evidence to support her claims. |
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http://blogcritics.org/archives/2002/09/19/092446.php
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| | Rowland's supposed "Infringements" on Stouffer. |
| | Stouffer's book illustrations would lead me to believe ages 6 to 9, not 6 to 12. | | | Looking at Stouffer's use I'd guess it came from "huggable," as in the cutesy appearance of her illustrations (which instantly reminded me of alien Teletubbies with rabbit kinda faces). | | | I'd heard the story of this lady and the supposed infringement JK Rowland had done to her book, and wanted to check it out after reading the first four of the Harry Potter series. |
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http://www.r88.com/Potter
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| | News: Nancy Stouffer ruling upheld |
| | Rowling's use of the term "Muggles" describes ordinary humans with no magical powers while Stouffer's "Muggles" are tiny, hairless creatures with elongated heads. | | | Stouffer was hit with a $50,000 sanction in the original ruling, which has been upheld, because the judge concluded that Stouffer had "perpetrated a fraud on the Court through her submission of fraudulent documents as well as through her untruthful testimony." | | | Stouffer is also responsible for undoubtedly sizable attorney's fees for both parties in the original case and this appeal. |
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http://www.hpana.com/news.cfm?nid=17860&rss=10
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| | The Legend of Rah and the Muggles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Legend of Rah and the Muggles is a novel written by N.K. Stouffer, the author who is most famous for unsuccessfully suing Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling over the use of the word 'Muggles'. | | | The story introduces Stouffer's version of 'Muggles': mutant descendants -- bald, huge-headed, small, childish -- of the people left behind in the island nation of Aura, many generations ago, when the wealthy deserted it and them in the wake of a nuclear war. | | | Since that time Aura has been covered with a purple haze through which sunlight can barely trickle but moonlight, paradoxically, can pass undimmed. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Rah_and_the_Muggles
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| | Harry Potter: Busy Times |
| | Nancy Stouffer, who wrote a 1984 book called The Legend of Rah and the Muggles, is accusing Rowling of plagiarism. | | | Stouffer's books went out of print in 1987. | | | Stouffer claims Rowling copied the term "muggles" from her and says that other elements of their books are "suspiciously similar." |
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http://www.infoplease.com/spot/harrypotter2.html
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| | The Hogwarts Wire Court throws out 'Muggle' lawsuit against Rowling; Nancy Stouffer fined, accused of fraud by judge |
| | U.S. District Judge Allen G. Schwartz has rejected Nancy Stouffer's claims that she was plagiarized by author J.K. Rowling and in turn fined her $50,000, saying, "The court finds, by clear and convincing evidence, that Stouffer has perpetuated a fraud... | | | through her submission of fraudulent documents as well as through her untruthful testimony," The judge found only minimal similarities between the Rowling's and Stouffer's books. | | | In addition, the court told Stouffer to pay a portion of the attorney's fees incurred by Rowling, Scholastic and Warner Bros. |
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http://www.hogwartswire.com/archives/000296.html
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| | Any latest 2005 news on Nancy Stouffer? |
| | Has anyone heard any recent news about Nancy Stouffer | | | Now that Book 6 of the Harry Potter book will come out |
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http://www.kinderspider.de/kin902e/050528025625.shtml
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| | Whatever happen to Nancy Stouffer??? |
| | Has anyone heard a word or anything at all about Nancy Stouffer who claims that J.K. Rowlings stole her ideas in a book back in the 1980s and was thrown out by a US Federal judge in September, 2002?? | | | With the upcoming film coming this summer and the release of the latest book last year..... |
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http://www.talkaboutpeople.com/group/alt.fan.harry-potter/messages/241426.html
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| | Alibris: Nancy K Stouffer |
| | Your search: Books » Author: Nancy K Stouffer | | | by Stouffer, Nancy K. The second in a four-book series that showcases Larry, Lilly and their friends as they share life experiences and learn about the nature of true friendship. | | | Author Nancy Stouffer claimed in a lawsuit that J.K. Rowling used elements of THE LEGEND OF RAH AND THE MUGGLES to create the phenomenally popular Harry Potter books. |
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http://www.alibris.com/search/books/author/Nancy_K_Stouffer
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| | Encyclopedia Search |
| | Nancy also co-starred in a number of films including... |
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http://www.encyclopedian.com/search.php?searWords=Ten
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| | Stop the Insult |
| | This site is dedicated to exposing the lies, deceit and general crap perpetuated by Nancy Stouffer in her endless quest for money and people to buy her books (which, incidentally, come under the third heading anyway...) | | | The new, extended version of my parody of Stouffer's book. | | | Analysis and commentary on the interview on Stouffer's website. |
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http://www.viacaltha.co.uk/stoptheinsult
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| | Biography for J.K. Rowling |
| | In 2002, she was sued for plagiarism in the District Court of the Southern District of New York by Pennsylvania-based author Nancy Stouffer who claimed that J K Rowling had lifted ideas from her 1984 book The Legend of Rah and Muggles, which includes a character called Larry Potter. | | | However the case against J K Rowling was dismissed on 19 September 2002 when the judged ruled that Ms Stouffer had lied to the court and doctored evidence to support her claims. | | | Is one of only two contemporary authors to have a novel spend more than a year on both the New York Times hardcover and paperback best-seller lists (the other author being Nicholas Sparks) |
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http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0746830/bio
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| | Salt Lake City Weekly - Mother Matrix |
| | In 2002, Nancy Stouffer accused author J.K. Rowling of lifting the Harry Potter series off her children’s book, Larry Potter and His Friend Lily. | | | A judge later found Stouffer had submitted fraudulent evidence and slapped her with a $50,000 fine. | | | The case was settled out of court without any formal acknowledgment of Dunn’s credibility. |
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http://www.slweekly.com/editorial/2005/city_3_2005-01-20.cfm
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| | Re: Any latest 2005 news on Nancy Stouffer? |
| | On Sun, 22 May 2005 07:18:16 GMT, Chris Schumacher wrote: > "pluther" wrote in news:1116333956.945937.246220 > @[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> Who's Nancy Stouffer? | | | Re: Any latest 2005 news on Nancy Stouffer? | | | Nancy would be more like "I didn't really write the song 'She Loves You', but I once said that phrase somewhere and Lennon heard me, I'm sure he did!!!1!!11!eleven!"...even though it was later found that he faked having ever been to Liverpool. |
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http://www.talkaboutpeople.com/group/alt.fan.harry-potter/messages/302122.html
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