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High Court judge Peter Smith has rejected the claim that Dan Brown copied from nonfiction work The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail for his bestseller The Da Vinci Code. The central theme of both books includes the hypothesis that Jesus married and had a child with Mary Magdalene, but the judge said that the theme was "too general and too low a level of abstraction to merit copyight protection." The judge argued that the the nonfiction book did not have a central theme as contended by the claimants: "It was an artificial creation for the purposes of the litigation working back from the Da Vinci Code." He said that the claimants' contention that HBHG had very little apart from the central themes was not correct. There was no "architecture" or "structure" to be found in HBHG, and accordingly there was "no copyright infringement either by textual copying or non textual copying." Read more in The Book Standard 4/7/06
Posted by P. Kaufman at April 10, 2006 7:52 AM
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