Indian Court To Warner Brothers: “You Are Silly Muggles”

A Delhi court has tossed a Warner Brothers copyright infringement suit against an Indian film company, partly because the U. S. studio waited too long to proceed with its litigation and partly because the court simply didn’t buy the argument that consumers would be confused by the Indian film’s characters, including “Hari Puttar”. WB had claimed that children would think that this “Hari Puttar” was that Harry Potter. The Indian film is about a boy named Hari Prasad Dhoonda whose father nicknames him Hari Puttar (Puttar means “son” in Punjabi and Hindi). Hari helps his father save an invention from thieves. Read more here and here.