Re: OT: Plagiarism

On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 19:54:21 +0000, Neil Barnes
<nailed_barnacle@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Not SF - but highly amused to note that Dan 'Da Vinci' Brown is in the
high court at the moment defending himself against a charge of plagiarism
and copyright offences against the authors of 'The Holy Blood and the Holy
Grail'.

Ha. When Whitley Strieber "borrowed" the story of my spoof UFO book as part
of the Attested Historical True Factual Background of his novel =Majestic=,
SFWA laughed heartily at the notion that I might have any legal redress.

Dave
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