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Da Vinci Code Author Sued

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the prior-art-in-my-head dept.

riptalon writes "Dan Brown, the author of The Da Vinci Code, is being sued in the UK for using ideas from a previous non fiction book The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail in his novel. The Bangkok Post states that 'The question the court is facing is whether you can copyright an idea, a conjecture.'"

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  1. Re:Good to know it's not just the USA by slavemowgli · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't be too hard on the lawyers - it's just 99% of them that give the rest a bad name.

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    quidquid latine dictum sit altum videtur.