Harry Potter piled up a quillion dollars in BO receipts this time around, but don't think that means you can shave off a few pennies selling Harry Potter-branded merchandise without a license. As Hollywood Reporter notes, they've trademarked everything:
That's normal; they have to protect the property however they can, and if that means bringing the full weight of Warners' legal department down on someone stupid enough to sell bootleg Quidditch-branded cloth bibs, so be it. Who would do such a thing? Pirates, of course - or maybe well-meaning people who want to set up their own quidditch league. The International Quidditych Association claims there are teams in 200 colleges and 140 high schools. Says their webpage:
But let's just remember what Quidditch is, okay? From wikipedia:
Flying on broomsticks would seem to be the crucial term here. I hesitate to google this any more, lest we come across pictures of people running down a field with a brookstick between their legs.
Oh, what the heck. Surely it's not as amusing as it sounds. . . . yes, it is.
