[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.

[Cincinatus]

I noticed two things when I read . First, it was appallingly awful. Second, it was a complete rip-off of The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail. If there's any justice in this world, Baignet and Leigh will collect big time. It just might discourage future horrible Dan Brown novels, although I doubt it.

[Cincinatus]

Corrected typo post. I noticed two things when I read The Da Vinci Code. First, it was appallingly awful. Second, it was a complete rip-off of The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail. If there's any justice in this world, Baignet and Leigh will collect big time. It just might discourage future horrible Dan Brown novels, although I doubt it.

[Question_Assumptions]

Ideas are not copyrightable but an work that draws substantially from another work can be considered a derivative work. But like much of the rest of intellectual property law, it's so subjective that they only way to know if something is legal or not is to go to court.

[Emmet Fitzhume]

Since when do original ideas count for anything?

Stealing is stealing is stealing.