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	Tanya Grotter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Courts in the Netherlands prevented the distribution of a Dutch translation of Tanya Grotter and the Magical Double Bass in 2003 after Rowling and her publishers sued arguing that the Grotter books violate copyright law.
		Таня Гроттер и пенсне Ноя (Tanya Grotter and the Pince-nez of Noah)
		In Tanya Grotter and the Magical Double Bass, Tanya Grotter is an eleven year old girl who was left orphaned when the darkest sorceress, Chuma-Del-Tort or She-Who-Is-Not as she is called by the general population who are afraid to speak her name due to fact that doing do could attract spells made by her (e.g.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tanya_Grotter (490 words)

	Tanya - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Tanya is the popular name for the Hasidic Jewish book Likkutei Amarim, written by Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi in 1797 CE.
		Tanya Rabbati is an anonymous work on Jewish law first published in Mantua, Italy, in 1514 CE.
		Tanya Rabbati is very similar to a lengthier work, Shibbolei ha-Leket, which is known to be written by Zedekiah ben Abraham Anav, one of Jehiel’s relatives.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Tanya (544 words)

	Tanya: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Tanya
		This book's full name is "Likutei Amarim - Tanya," (Hebrew: "Collection of Sayings - Tanya ('It is stated in a baraitha[?]')"), and is popularly known as Tanya.
		There is also another, less-known book named Tanya, written a few hundred years ago by a Talmudic Scholar named ((fill in later)), which is a collection of halakha rulings.
		Tanya is also a Russian hypocoristic[?] for the female name Tatiana[?].
	www.encyclopedian.com /ta/Tanya.html (190 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| International \| Harry Potter clones
		Tanya Grotter is a talented 11-year-old with a knack for witchcraft.
		The plots of the Grotter stories, according to participants in a number of online forums, are so close to those of the Potter series that to label them parodies would be generous.
		The author of Grotter's adventures and his publishers are now facing the threat of legal action from JK Rowling and Warner Brothers.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2002/612/in3.htm (832 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : At Leisure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In fact, many Russian critics defend Yemets as a talented writer who did no harm with Tanya Grotter, arguing that the Grotter series is a valid literary endeavour.
		Yemets insists Tanya Grotter and the Magic Double Bass is a light-hearted parody of the Harry Potter books that gained a life of its own in the three successive books he rushed out in less than a year.
		Yemets says his books are comic fantasy and romance, and Tanya Grotter is a rebellious figure who sometimes dabbles in fl magic.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1030414/asp/atleisure/story_1871783.asp (492 words)

	Aliens in This World: 03/30/2003 - 04/05/2003
		She has photoalbums full of pictures of herself, a large group of toadies to make Tanya's life hell, and a secret crush on the picture of someone whose initials are "GP" whom she wishes would take her away from all this.
		When Tanya's father Leopold wrote that he'd managed to create the Talisman of Four Elements, he raced to his side on a rocket-propelled couch, but found Tanya's mother and father dead, Tanya alive in the double bass case, and the whole evil undead army of Chuma del' Torte roaming aimlessly outside their house.
		If Tanya is plagiarism (actually, copyright was what was being argued, hard as it is to find that in these news stories) any story containing a Dark Lord being fought by a Wizard, a Dwarf, a Halfling, an Elf and a Lost Heir is obviously in line for the chop by the Tolkien Estate.
	suburbanbanshee.blogspot.com /2003_03_30_suburbanbanshee_archive.html (1856 words)

	Harry Potter parody causes concern - Columbia Chronicle Online -December 9, 2002
		J.K. Rowling, the British creator of the $1.5 billion Harry Potter juggernaut, was struck enough by the not-so-coincidental similarity between Tanya and Harry that she is threatening to sue Yemets if he does not make his 413-page Tanya Grotter and Her Magical Double Bass disappear.
		But because Tanya Grotter is a parody, Yemets is shielded from any legal action alleging copyright infringement, they said.
		Eksmo already has a deal in the works in the Netherlands for Tanya Grotter to be published in Dutch, and it is negotiating to have the series published in at least 20 other countries.
	www.ccchronicle.com /back/2002_fall/2002-12-09/arts6.html (725 words)

	entertainment.iafrica.com \| news 'Grotter' author slams Potter's Rowling
		The "Potter vs. Grotter" wrangle spilled over this week into an Amsterdam court, where Rowling and her lawyers have brought a suit for "unscrupulous writing and plagiarism" to prevent the book's release.
		Warner Brothers, which purchased the film and merchandising rights, as well as the trademarks and copyrights to the trainee wizard and his magical friends, is behind the lawsuit along with the British multi-millionaire.
		Accused by Rowling of plagiarism, Yemets and his Russian publishers, Eksmo, have defended their series with the claim that the Grotter tales are merely a parody of the Potter tales.
	entertainment.iafrica.com /news/223299.htm (705 words)

	Harry Potter and the International Order of Copyright - Should Tanya Grotter and the Magic Double Bass be banned? By ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Tanya rides a double bass, sports a mole instead of a bolt of lightning, and attends the Tibidokhs School of Magic.
		Grotter is a hit: Yemets has already sold more than 1 million copies.
		Potter's publishers, in defense of strong global copyright, would say that works like Tanya Grotter are theft, and such theft destroys the incentive to write in the first place.
	slate.msn.com /id/2084960 (1445 words)

	Pravda.RU:English Harry Potter Vs. Russian Tanya Grotter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		J.K. Rowling, her agents, to be more precise, managed to endure Tanya Grotter’s success in Russia (500 thousand books were sold in Russia over six months).
		On the other hand, Tanya Grotter was not meant to become a re-development to Harry Potter.
		Tanya Grotter is a girl with a mole on her nose.
	english.pravda.ru /main/2003/03/15/44451_.html (916 words)

	A Random Assortment of Ideas
		Grotter informed me that after many failures he finally was successful in obtaining the Talisman of the Four Elements.” Medusea’s eyes narrowed.
		“Grotter wrote that in order to obtain the talisman, he used 147 different ingredients, among which it was absolutely necessary to have carnelian and the tears of a mouse.
		But it is for this very reason that the smallest Grotter cannot stay to live in Tibidox, the same as which drove Leopold to take Sofia and the baby to live in a remote march, where only Kikimorkas and werewolves and other dead things reside.
	www.livejournal.com /users/azriona/data/rss (15065 words)

	Potter Trumps Grotter - Apr 04, 2003 - E! Online News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Apr 4, 2003, 2:00 PM PT Tanya Grotter can't hold a wand to Harry Potter.
		Rowling's lawyer successfully argued that Dmitry Yemets' Tanya Grotter and the Magic Double Bass lifted major elements of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (known to readers in the U.S. as the Sorcerer's Stone).
		Tanya Grotter and the Magic Double Bass has been a huge hit in Russia, selling north of 1 million copies and generating numerous comic books and radio versions.
	www.eonline.com /News/Items/0,1,11570,00.html (572 words)

	Weblog Entry - 10/11/2003: "Tanya Grotter's nearing Court's decision" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		While Tanya Grotter's popularity is firmly established in Russia, an Amsterdam court is set to make a ruling on a copyright lawsuit filed by JK Rowling and US Time Warner Entertainment.
		Yemets freely admits that Tanya Grotter started as a parody of Rowling's little wizard, but argues that over time, she has grown into a character all her own.
		Tanya is a very fierce, cool kid who is always under dangerous attacks and has to do her own job to get out of them.
	www.theministryofmagic.org.uk /archives/00000013.htm (361 words)

	Guardian \| Dutch give Potter rival the boot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Britain's boy wizard Harry Potter trounced Russia's Tanya Grotter yesterday when an appeals court in the Netherlands upheld a ban on Dutch publication of a Russian novel which judges said aped JK Rowling's best-selling book.
		The Amsterdam appeals court said the similarities between Dmitry Yemets' Tanya Grotter and the Magic Double Bass and Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone were too close, and upheld the view that the book infringed Rowling's copyright.
		Byblos, publisher of the Dutch translation of the Tanya Grotter book, accepted the novel was based on Harry Potter, and said it should be considered not as plagiarism but as a "polemic that quotes from Harry Potter".
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4792066-103690,00.html (138 words)

	SnitchSeeker.com - View Single Post - Boy Wizard In Court Win!
		The author JK Rowling won a court ruling yesterday to block the Dutch translation of a Russian novel about a girl wizard called Tanya Grotter after arguing that it copied one of her Harry Potter bestsellers.
		Grotter and Potter both lose their parents in a battle with a wizard turned bad, whom they go on to confront: Potter fights Voldemort, Grotter takes on Chuma-Del-Tort.
		"Tanya Grotter won a moral victory, because the publishers of Harry Potter showed that they were scared of competition," Yemets said in Moscow.
	www.snitchseeker.com /vb3/showpost.php?p=11876&postcount=1 (296 words)

	Wizard-City :: Muggles Making Magic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Tanya Grotter may ride a magical double bass instead of a broomstick, but she shares several key attributes with her near-namesake.
		Like Potter, Grotter is an orphan, she wears glasses and she has an unusual mark on her face - a mole on her nose.
		Grotter and Potter both lose their parents in a battle with an Evil wizard, who they go on to confront in battle: Potter fights Voldemort, Grotter takes on Chuma-Del-Tort.
	wizard-city.com /center/index.php?TWC=tanyagrotter&vo=35 (273 words)

	JRL #7143 - Russia & Saddam, Peace Camp Dying, Iraq Debt, Aksyonov/ Iraq & US, Military Reform, Veshnyakov Interview/ ...
		Yemets insists "Tanya Grotter and the Magic Double Bass" is a lighthearted parody of the Harry Potter books that gained a life of its own in the three successive books he rushed out in less than a year.
		I sincerely believe that 'Tanya Grotter' is a good book and it won't disappear because good books don't sink without a trace." The Amsterdam court rejected the argument that the book was a parody and ruled that its publication would violate copyright and trademark laws.
		And 'Tanya Grotter' is good literature." Tatyana Uspenskaya, marketing director of Rosman, which publishes the Potter series in Russia, counters that intellectual property has to be the primary standard.
	www.cdi.org /russia/johnson/7143.htm (11944 words)

	Wired News: Potter 'Twin' Causes Controversy
		While Tanya Grotter is an 11-year-old girl and rides a magical double bass instead of a broomstick, she shares several attributes with her near-namesake: Like Potter, she is an orphan, wears glasses and has an unusual mark on her face a mole on her nose.
		And like the Potter books, the Grotter series is full of fanciful magic words that set spells in motion.
		The author of both the Grotter books, Dmitry Yemets, said his work was "entirely independent." However, he also said it was meant in part as a parody of the Harry Potter series, but with roots in Russian culture and folklore.
	www.wired.com /news/culture/0,1284,56254,00.html (714 words)

	Sci Fi Wire -- The News Service of the Sci Fi Channel
		Lawyers for Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling are threatening to sue a Russian writer, arguing that his book Tanya Grotter and the Magical Double Bass plagiarizes Rowling's work, the Associated Press reported.
		Grotter is an orphaned 11-year-old girl who rides a magical double bass, wears glasses, has an unusual mark on her face (a mole on her nose), and makes use of magic words to set spells in motion, the AP reported.
		The second, Tanya Grotter and the Disappearing Floor, hit bookstores last week, the AP reported.
	www.scifi.com /scifiwire/art-main.html?2002-11/07/09.00.books (243 words)

	LawMeme - Russia: Harry potter v. Tanya Grotter! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Tanya Grotter is the heroine of a popular three-book series in Russia.
		She has magic powers and a scar on her face; she studies at a school for wizards and fights against an evil wizard (named Zuma Del Tort) who killed her parents.
		J.K. Rowling's lawyers are considering legal actions against Dimitri Jemetz, the Russian author of the Tanya Grotter series, and his publisher.
	research.yale.edu /lawmeme/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=615 (273 words)

	Tanya Grotter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The books tell about Tanya's studies at the only school of magic and reform, Tibidox (Тибидохс).
		The tenth book, "Tanya Grotter and the Curl of Aphrodite", is due to come out in late May of this year.
		There is a sequel/companion series to the Tanya Grotter books that tell the tale of Mefodiy Buslaev, another mage who attends Tibidox.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/T/Tanya-Grotter.htm (329 words)

	Harry Potter :: Court Hears Case About Potter-Like Books
		Lawyers representing Rowling, her Dutch publisher Harmonie and the U.S. company Time Warner Entertainment are seeking to prevent the release in the Netherlands of a literary series about Tanya Grotter, the heroine of the Russian books who flies a magical double bass instead of a broomstick.
		"Tanya Grotter is clearly an independent, recognizable character with many similarities and many differences to Harry Potter," said Marc de Leeuw.
		A ruling in Potter vs. Grotter was scheduled at the municipal court in Amsterdam for April 3.
	www.religionnewsblog.com /archives/00002840.html (730 words)

	Publications
		There are striking plot similarities between the two books: both Harry Potter and Tanya Grotter are orphans of murdered parents with magical powers who attend wizarding schools and have unusual scars on their faces.
		Indeed, they argued that Tanya Grotter and the Magic Double Bass not only copied the storyline of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s stone, but also the plot and the characters.
		On 3 April 2003 the Amsterdam District Court found that Yemets’ "Tanya Grotter and the Magic Double Bass" was an unauthorised adaptation of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone" by Rowling.
	www.mwe.com /info/news/euroip0703-copy.htm (2209 words)

	The Reader's Connection: Who is Tanya Grotter? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The book features a young girl called Tanya Grotter, who is an orphan with magical powers, has a strange mark on her face and must battle a terrible evil figure.
		Hey Tanya Grotter, How in the world is a mole on your nose strange compaired to lightning bolt shaped scar on Harry Potters Head.
		Tanya's a bit more realistic to me than harry is, even though she is a freak who flies on a cello.
	www.glenview.lib.il.us /RAblog/archives/000156.html (1679 words)

	The Leaky Cauldron: Harry Potter News: Updates on J.K. Rowling, book six (Half-Blood Prince, HBP), movie four (Goblet ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Tanya Grotter books are amazing and original works using only a few minor elements from the Potter books.
		However, Grotter was published as an independent book and all connections to the Potter books were demented, if I remember correctly.
		Grotter stars an orphaned wizard child whose parents were murdered by a horrid enemy...
	www.the-leaky-cauldron.org /MTarchives/002702.html (3904 words)

	Harry Potter Fan Zone's Official Forums > Tanya Grotter v.s Harry Potter? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Mike Ize of Midwood is a passionate fan of the "Tanya Grotter" series, authored by Dmitry Yemets and published in Moscow by the Eksmo publishing house.
		The court fight against a Dutch publisher that had planned to release a Dutch translation of "Tanya Grotter" in the Netherlands was part of an effort to stop unauthorized versions of "Harry Potter," said Neil Blair, a lawyer and business manager for Rowling's British literary agent.
		It is legal for "Tanya Grotter" books to be sold, in their original Russian, in the United States, but the Dutch court's decision "has actually had the effect that no potential licensee has dared to bring a translation on the market," said Eric Keyzer, a lawyer in the Netherlands who worked on the case.
	www.hpfzforums.com /lofiversion/index.php/t2879.html (1096 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Arts \| Legal threat for 'Russian Potter'
		Lawyers for best-selling British children's author J K Rowling and Warner Brothers have given a Russian publisher until Sunday to withdraw two novels they say plagiarise her Harry Potter novels.
		Tanya Grotter is a "cultural reply", the author says
		The first novel, Tanya Grotter and Her Magic Double Bass, sold 100,000 copies and Tanya Grotter and the Disappearing Floor came out last week.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/arts/2414045.stm (384 words)

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