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It’s generally not trademark infringement to refer to the actual thing the trademark refers to (”nominative use”). This would actually be a claim unlikely to succeed unless you are intentionally claiming that are writing the true original Harry Potter stories.


Tell that to the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle estate :)

I don't know if their beef is with copyright vs trademark.




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