Authors lose appeal over Da Vinci Code plagiarism

Two authors who claimed Dan Brown’s blockbuster novel The Da Vinci Code was largely copied from their earlier book today lost an appeal over the case.

“It does not, however, extend to clothing information, facts, ideas, theories and themes with exclusive property rights, so as to enable the claimants to monopolise historical research or knowledge and prevent the legitimate use of historical and biographical material, theories propounded, general arguments deployed, or general hypotheses suggested (whether they are sound or not) or general themes written about,” he ruled.

March 29, 2007 by Uncategorized 1

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1 Response

  1. Bibliofuture says:
    March 30, 2007 at 4:47 am

    Law Review Article
    For the United States law on this area, here is an article I suggest:

    Copyright in Collections of Facts: A Theory for the Protection of Nonfiction Literary Works

    Robert C. Denicola

    Columbia Law Review, Vol. 81, No. 3 (Apr., 1981), pp. 516-542

    http://tinyurl.com/2qs4cs

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