Authors lose ‘Da Vinci’ appeal
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From the Associated Press
Britain’s Court of Appeal rejected a lawsuit Wednesday from two authors who claimed novelist Dan Brown stole their ideas for his blockbuster novel “The Da Vinci Code.”
Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh had sued Brown’s publisher, Random House Inc., claiming he had copied from their 1982 nonfiction book, “The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail.” Both books deal with the theory that Jesus married Mary Magdalene and had a child, and that the bloodline continues.
The authors now face legal bills of about $6 million.
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