On the off-chance you haven’t heard enough about The Da Vinci Code, The Guardian today reports that “Da Vinci Code author, Dan Brown, and his publisher Random House yesterday won a legal victory against an author who claimed that parts of Brown’s global bestseller were lifted from his own thriller.”
The writer in question, Lewis Perdue, author of Daughter of God, The Da Vinci Legacy, and 18 other books, responded to the decision on his blog, The Da Vinci Crock, saying he was “a little disappointed, but overall I am relieved to have this part of things over.”
According to The Guardian, Perdue says that the plot, pacing, and structure of Brown’s Da Vinci Code and Perdue’s Daughter of God “are remarkably similar: both books open with an American mysteriously summoned to Europe to meet with the owner of a priceless collection of art; both feature clues hidden in artworks which lead the protagonists on their frantic, dangerous searches; and result in the simultaneous unfolding of two storylines.”
You can read the Guardian piece here. A related article that appeared in the July issue of Vanity Fair magazine can be found on writer Seth Mnookin’s Web site here.
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
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The Supreme Court didn't address the substance of my case at all -- it's just that they didn't want to deal with a messy inconsistency concerning federal adjudication of copyright infringement.
Thanks to that, justice in this sort of issue still depends on shopping for the right Federal Court to hear the case. That and megabucks for lots and lots of lawyers, some of which have a tenuous relationship with honesty and no respect at all for the facts.
Furthermore, the Supreme Court makes mistakes all the time. Hell, it took them over half a century to correct Plessey v. Ferguson.
One part of me is a little disappointed, but overall I am relieved to have this part of things over.
Not having to pay Random House's $300,000+ legal fee demand was the most important issue and having Seth Mnookin and his Vanity Fair article set straight the Random House spin machine pretty well established the point I had tried to make before RH sued me.
As my appellate attorney Luther Munford just said to me in an email, "I believe the petition makes it clear to anyone who cares about such things that Dan Brown and his wife certainly did copy Daughter of God in a substantial way."
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