02-28-2006, 03:56 AM
Hey, Is Dan Brown a Harvard Prof? Actually I thought the book was based on Harvard's Baloney Clooney who claims to be researching "Mother Goddess" themes. I guess he's aping the Dan Brown book to try to impress co-eds. He writes and speaks to convey an image of being the Dan Brown hero.
http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=14150248
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--> Historians sue Da Vinci Code publishers
London: Author Dan Brown appeared in court on Monday at the start of a trial in which two historians say he copied their work to write "The Da Vinci Code" best-seller and are suing his British publisher.
Richard Leigh and Michael Baigent are suing their own publisher, Random House, for lifting "the whole architecture" of the research that went into their 1982 non-fiction book "The Holy Blood, and the Holy Grail," itself a bestseller.
Brown's religious thriller has more than 36 million copies in print worldwide and has upset Catholics for suggesting Jesus married Mary Magdalene and had a child by her. The same theory is put forward in The Holy Blood, and the Holy Grail.
... major Hollywood adaptation which Sony Pictures plans to release in May.
"... Dan Brown copied from The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail and therefore the publication of the result by the defendant is in infringement of the copyright of my client in the United Kingdom."
Random House, owned by German media conglomerate Bertelsmann, have dismissed the claim as "without merit", and succeeded last October in having a "substantial" part of the case made by the historians dropped.
Commentators have pointed out that a major character in 41-year-old Brown's book, Sir Leigh Teabing, has a name that is an anagram of Leigh and Baigent. A third author of the 1982 book, Henry Lincoln, has decided to stay out of the action.
Last August, Brown won a court ruling against another writer, Lewis Perdue, who claimed The Da Vinci Code copied elements of two of his novels, "Daughter of God" and "The Da Vinci Legacy". Perdue had sought 86 million pounds in damages and asked the court to block distribution of the book and the movie adaptation, which features Tom Hanks alongside French actress Audrey Tautou. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Stay tuned for my upcoming novels:
The Count of Miserables
Les Monte Cristos
A Tail of Two Sh1tties (any similarities to Dr. Farmer and Raju Rajagopal are ENTIRELY coincidental) <!--emo&:bevil--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/b_evil.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='b_evil.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--emo&:bevil--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/b_evil.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='b_evil.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=14150248
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--> Historians sue Da Vinci Code publishers
London: Author Dan Brown appeared in court on Monday at the start of a trial in which two historians say he copied their work to write "The Da Vinci Code" best-seller and are suing his British publisher.
Richard Leigh and Michael Baigent are suing their own publisher, Random House, for lifting "the whole architecture" of the research that went into their 1982 non-fiction book "The Holy Blood, and the Holy Grail," itself a bestseller.
Brown's religious thriller has more than 36 million copies in print worldwide and has upset Catholics for suggesting Jesus married Mary Magdalene and had a child by her. The same theory is put forward in The Holy Blood, and the Holy Grail.
... major Hollywood adaptation which Sony Pictures plans to release in May.
"... Dan Brown copied from The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail and therefore the publication of the result by the defendant is in infringement of the copyright of my client in the United Kingdom."
Random House, owned by German media conglomerate Bertelsmann, have dismissed the claim as "without merit", and succeeded last October in having a "substantial" part of the case made by the historians dropped.
Commentators have pointed out that a major character in 41-year-old Brown's book, Sir Leigh Teabing, has a name that is an anagram of Leigh and Baigent. A third author of the 1982 book, Henry Lincoln, has decided to stay out of the action.
Last August, Brown won a court ruling against another writer, Lewis Perdue, who claimed The Da Vinci Code copied elements of two of his novels, "Daughter of God" and "The Da Vinci Legacy". Perdue had sought 86 million pounds in damages and asked the court to block distribution of the book and the movie adaptation, which features Tom Hanks alongside French actress Audrey Tautou. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Stay tuned for my upcoming novels:
The Count of Miserables
Les Monte Cristos
A Tail of Two Sh1tties (any similarities to Dr. Farmer and Raju Rajagopal are ENTIRELY coincidental) <!--emo&:bevil--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/b_evil.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='b_evil.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--emo&:bevil--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/b_evil.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='b_evil.gif' /><!--endemo-->
The Snows of Sacramento