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Supreme Court won’t hear Da Vinci Code case
More articles on this topic: Da Vinci CodeWASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday handed a victory to the author of the “The Da Vinci Code,” refusing to consider a case alleging copyright infringement.
Author Lewis Perdue contends that Dan Brown’s megathriller is substantially similar to his book, written years before the 2003 publication of “The Da Vinci Code.
Some 60.5 million copies of “The Da Vinci Code” are in print worldwide.
Perdue argues that affidavits detailing similarities between his book, “Daughter of God,” and Brown’s book should have been considered by a federal judge, who rejected them. The judge ruled that no reasonable juror could find parts of Perdue’s work substantially similar to “The Da Vinci Code.” An appeals court upheld the ruling.
In one of the rejected affidavits, a literary expert found the evidence of infringement overwhelming. In another affidavit, a foreign linguistics expert found the similarities to be “striking.”
Perdue had alleged that Brown copied the basic premise of “Daughter of God,” including notions that history is controlled by victors, not losers, and the importance of the Roman Emperor Constantine in requiring a transition from a female to a male-dominated religion, the judge said.
Brown and Random House Inc. had filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Manhattan seeking a declaratory judgment that his work does not infringe on Perdue’s.
In a countersuit, Perdue asked the judge to rule that there was infringement and award $150 million in damages.
The case is Perdue v. Brown and Random House Inc., 06-213.
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