Carrie
02-27-2006, 04:28 PM
BBC News (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4754308.stm)
Monday, 27 February 2006
A claim that Dan Brown's bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code copied the ideas of two other authors has gone before London's High Court.
Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh say Mr Brown stole "the whole architecture" of research that went into their 1982 book The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail.
Both books contain the idea Jesus had a child. They are suing publisher Random House, which denies the allegation.
Mr Brown attended the court on Monday as a judge heard initial submissions.
Full Story (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4754308.stm)
Monday, 27 February 2006
A claim that Dan Brown's bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code copied the ideas of two other authors has gone before London's High Court.
Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh say Mr Brown stole "the whole architecture" of research that went into their 1982 book The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail.
Both books contain the idea Jesus had a child. They are suing publisher Random House, which denies the allegation.
Mr Brown attended the court on Monday as a judge heard initial submissions.
Full Story (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4754308.stm)