As far as I'm concerned, the Davinci code was a work of fiction with a mediocre plot. The only thing that people really like about the books is because they believe the 'history' put forward in the books.
But the book, at the end of the day, was a bloody 'The butler did it' story..I mean come on! Also, one should take note that there was a lawsuit by the people that wrote Holy Blood,Holy Grail have sued the publishers/authors of the Da Vinci Code. The Da Vinci code is based around the same supposedly 'historical facts' that HBHG is based around, sexed up in plot and characters for our modern times. You cannot copyright Historical Fact. You can only copyright works of fiction. The literary style of HBHG in that it is presented as Historical fact is immaterial. Therefore this is an admission in court of law and under oath that HBHG's 'Facts' are actually at best contrived and at worse, fiction. "Since no text in The DaVinci Code is lifted directly from Holy Blood, Holy Grail, the lawsuit is itself an implicit admission that Holy Blood, Holy Grail is a work of fiction. If it were a factual work of history, there would be no basis for a claim of copyright infingement. The inclusion of historical facts in a novel does not cause it to infringe the copyright of someone who wrote a history based on those facts. However, if Holy Blood, Holy Grail is a work of imagination, then including its "history" is as off-limits as writing a novel about the grandson of a Jedi Knight named Luke Skywalker. Star Wars isn't about real events, so including its events makes the novel an infringing derivative work. The fact that Holy Blood, Holy Grail looks and reads like a history doesn't change that, since the literary form does not determine whether the "facts" it relates are facts in the public domain, or fancies under copyright. However, Dan Brown could claim that the the authors, in presenting their work as history instead of fiction, voids their right to seek restitution for an inadvertent infingement due to the bad faith in the presentation. Which means that the only way Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh can win money in the case is to argue that Holy Blood, Holy Grail is not just fiction, but a fabrication sufficiently obvious that a reasonable person could tell it was fiction despite the efforts to present it as a work of history (thus voiding the bad faith argument)." Keep this in mind if DaVinci code has somehow 'opened your eyes' or given you some sort of sudden 'epiphany' about the Catholic religion. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Purchase RoboHelp from House of Fusion, a Macromedia Authorized Affiliate and support the CF community. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=59 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:160490 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
