Da Vinci Code Author Sued

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.'"

Re:Good to know it's not just the USA

[slavemowgli]

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

Good!

[salmacis2]

Can he be sued for writing a really, really shitty novel?

It's funny that they're up in arms

[BitterAndDrunk]

Christians (some) really don't like the DaVinci Code.

I forgot where I heard it, but someone had a fantastic joke about it:
Christians are protesting the DaVinci Code and developing texts refuting it. Apparently they're having difficulty believing that a book can be fiction.

Boy did I mangle that one. Anyway. -1 Overrated for ME!

Re:It's funny that they're up in arms

[UnknownSoldier]

> Christians are protesting the DaVinci Code and developing texts refuting it. Apparently they're having difficulty believing that a book can be fiction.

Don't worry -- they are still working on the Bible...

*ba-da boom*

Re:Good!

[StikyPad]

Pfft.. Tom Clancy is bad, but he's nothing compared to Dean Koontz. Here's a Koontz novel: There's a potential victim, a current or former cop who has a gun, or (in a rare twist) someone who hates guns but decides to get one anyway, then there's some supernatural creature or evil serial killer, then the hero shoots the bad thing, gets the girl, end of story. It's the kind of book Bush would write, if he could write.