Current Events > Warner Bros. is cracking down on local Harry Potter fan festivals

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http://www.ktuu.com/content/news/Warner-Bros-crackdown-puts-Dark-Mark-over-Potter-festivals-485763851.html

Philip Dawson is the director of Chestnut Hill's business district in Philadelphia. He says Warner Bros. reached out to his group in May, letting them know that new guidelines have been put in place regarding such festivals that prohibit the use of any names, places or objects from the series.

Festival directors around the country, including in Aurora, Illinois, and Ithaca, New York, were also told that the new guidelines would prohibit much of the Potter-themed activities.

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If these festivals are making money off of the Harry Potter brand, then I can understand WB cracking down on it.
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I doubt J. K. Rowling cates and she has higher authority tbh.
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Duncanwii posted...

I doubt J. K. Rowling cates and she has higher authority tbh.

No she doesn't. She should, but it's more complicated than that.

Alucard188 posted...

If these festivals are making money off of the Harry Potter brand, then I can understand WB cracking down on it.

Also this.

Duncanwii posted...

I doubt J. K. Rowling cates and she has higher authority tbh.

I dunno, man. Even the Wizarding World at Universal doesn't have actors dressed up as the characters because Rowling won't allow it.

Rowling probably cares more than you think. She's shot down every pitch for a Harry Potter MMO and heavily restricts what other people are allowed to influence in adaptations which includes the WB movies.

She's not Anne McCaffrey tier bad but it wouldn't surprise me if she approved of shutting some of these things down.
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