[geeks] Goodbye, I guess

[Gary Goddard]

The fact that both books had the same publisher and both books got lots 
of publicity and increased sales had nothing to do with the case coming 
to court? Even the judge commented on this during the trial.

Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 08:58:19AM -0400, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>   
>>> Dan Brown's book "The DaVinci Code" was a blatant rip-off of "Holy Blood,
>>> Holy Grail", published in the early 80s.  He took their story and turned it
>>> into a fiction novel.
>>>       
>> They sued him for plagiarism, and commented, "We don't understand how he
>> managed to steal almost all the facts from our book and STILL get it all
>> wrong."
>>     
>
> And unfortunately, by the time it came around to trial, the HBHG authors
> were too old and in bad health to attend, so everything got dropped. 8-(
>
> Bill