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Warner Brothers threatened legal action against 15-year-old Claire Field over her Harry Potter fan site.

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Warner Brothers bullies girl over Harry Potter site Warner Brothers has threatened a 15-year-old fan of Harry Potter with legal action over her Web site. By Kieren McCarthy. [Register] www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/15324.html

Reg to fight for Harry Potter 'cybersquatter' We see this as an appalling move by the grey suits at WB and are sure that they will leave Claire alone once they realise the disgust that most people feel towards this sort of bullying. By Kieren McCarthy. [Register] www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/15411.html

Warner Bros backs down on Harry Potter Web site One week after we got a little indignant about Warner Brothers sending 15-year-old Claire Field a legal letter demanding she hand over her www.harrypotterguide.co.uk domain, the giant conglomerate has backed down... By Kieren McCarthy. [Register] www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/15506.html

Harry Potter URL backlash begins Following Warner Bros unjustifiable persecution of children who happen to register Harry Potter domain names because they are fans of the books, a few souls have taken it upon themselves to make their feelings known. By Kieren McCarthy. [Register] www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/16295.html

Warner Bros bullying children again Warner Bros/Time Warner is pushing its weight around and sending threatening legal letters to young Harry Potter fans because they have had the audacity to register a domain name with the words 'harry' and 'potter' in it. By Kieren McCarthy. [Register] www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/16250.html

Meet the Warner Bros: Jekyll and Hyde Following a couple of days' research into Harry Potter domains, a pattern has emerged in how WB deals with the situation. It's not fair, it's indiscriminate and it's abusive. [Register] www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/15604.html

Warner Bros/ Harry Potter dispute kicks off again We thought it was all over, but the argument over the Harry Potter Web site run by 15-year-old Claire Field has kicked off again following her father's anger at media manipulation by Warner Brothers' head of publicity Barbara Brogliatti. By Kieren McCarth www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/15550.html

Defense Against the Dark Arts Group sticking up for webmasters of Harry Potter fan sites against Time-Warner. www.dprophet.com/dada

Warner Bros. claims Harry Potter sites The movie studio is claiming that many of the fan Web sites violate its intellectual-property rights and is demanding the domain names be surrendered. By Stephanie Grunier and John Lippman. [Wall Street Journal] www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2667273,00.html