Free Dan Brown!
Sweet justice! A London court has ruled, in not so many words, that Dan Brown and Random House are free to continue making grillions of dollars off The Da Vinci Code. Also, the release of the movie won’t be delayed, so Ron Howard can sleep easily tonight, although In Other Media has a feeling that he sleeps easily most nights. Sarah Lyall of The New York Times filed her report from London earlier this morning: “In issuing his judgment, Justice Peter Smith said that Mr. Brown did indeed rely on The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail in writing a section of the book, but he said that Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, the two authors of earlier book, had failed to prove what the central theme of their book was and thus failed to prove that Mr. Brown had lifted it from them. In fact, the judge said, the earlier book ‘does 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.‘”
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