Re: British Court Battle Over 'The Da Vinci Code'

Sheila J wrote:

I would suggest that anyone that knows anything about this train of
thinking was able to see that Brown just re-chucked some of the ideas
that have been floating around on the subject. I don't know much about
this but when I read it, it was easy to see that he had 'borrowed' the
idea from previous sources. Does it make it wrong though? Its a novel.

It does not. Because if it did, a lot of things could be said about
Shakespear's
plays, numerous versions of Don Juan, etc. Borrowing of the subjects is
a
copmmonplace in a literature regardless of its quality.

AFAIK, you also can't sue a person for writing a piece of crap and
making good
money out of. As for the "Holy S--t" (or whatever the right title is),
I simply browsed
through it and if the authors claim that this book is a product of a
serious scientific
research, well, it is their problem....

BTW, wasn't a line of Christ surviving and getting married to Maria
Magdalena used
in "The Last Temptation of Christ"?

.

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