[Jim Noble]

I don't think ideas are copyrighted.

Brown clearly used Baigent's concept, but wrote a whole new plot.

They have no case.

[buffyt]

I can't wait to see the movie. My husband read the book. I am reading Angels and Demons now, it is by same author.

[Thombo2]

"Holy Blood,Holy Grail".Interesting book.I can't attest to the veracity of the author's assertion(s),but it reads like a good mystery.Have to ck out "The DaVinci Code".

[antiRepublicrat]

Let's riot over this blasphemy and kill the authors!

Oh wait, nevermind, we're not Muslim.

:)

Back to the topic, I think the first author is just trying to cash in on the fact that someone else made more money off the basic idea than he did.

You cannot copyright ideas, but our absurd patent system might have let him patent it.

[joylyn]

The DaVinci Code was so badly written that I couldn't get past the first few pages. As a writer, I feel dismayed by the inept prose of so many best-sellers.

[Semi Civil Servant]

Best book review I saw on "The Holy Blood, and the Holy Grail" when it came out 20+ years ago:

Holy Blood
Holy Grail
Holy Mackerel

[Nihil Obstat]

Well, he sure didn't copy it out of the Bible.