Just too bad to be true

  • 2003-12-18
Someone named Harri Peters will be paying a very special visit to Estonian kids on Dec. 22. However, organizers of the Russian ice-ballet performance, called "Harri Peters and the School of Magicians" are playing with fire, according to Estonian copyright experts. The controversy surrounds the advertising poster for the show, which none-too-discreetly rips off J.K.Rowling's world-famous creation of Harry Potter. A bespectacled boy, an owl and a castle - you'd be forgiven for thinking that Harry Potter was the real star of the show, having undergone a magical metamorphosis into a slightly mo...
 
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