[The Solomon Key and Beyond: Dan Brown News] DA VINCI CODE’s “Teabing” sues Dan Brown

October 21, 2005 by wfzimmerman | No comments

Telegraph | News | Brown stole idea for Da Vinci Code, claim authors:

Dan Brown, author of The Da Vinci Code, is to face a High Court action brought by the authors of the 1982 non-fiction book The Holy Blood, and the Holy Grail, who allege that his blockbuster was based on their decade of research.

Speaking ahead of a preliminary hearing of the case next week, Richard Leigh, 62, one of the writers, said: “I don’t begrudge Brown his success. I have no particular grievance against him, except for the fact that he wrote a pretty bad novel.”

The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail

Mr Leigh, an American who has lived in England since 1974, and Michael Baigent, 57, a New Zealander, his co-author, are suing Random House, Brown’s publishers, for infringement of their ideas.

They are funding the action with the proceeds of their book, which Random House has reissued in a special �20 hardback edition to cash in on the success of Brown’s novel.

Henry Lincoln, 75, a Londoner who also co-wrote the book, is ill and has decided to remain out of the action.

A two-week trial is scheduled for the end of February, with both sides assembling formidable legal teams.

If a judge backs the action, the UK release in May of Sony Pictures’s �53 million film of The Da Vinci Code may be delayed. Paul Sutton, solicitor for the writers, said: “A reason that this case is so important is that it can create a precedent in

Waah, waah, waah. This ain’t going anywhere.

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