[geeks] Goodbye, I guess

Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net
Sat Sep 1 13:27:37 CDT 2007


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

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Bill Bradford 
Houston, Texas



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