Judge Rules in Favor of 'Da Vinci' Writer

Yahoo! News (AP) ^ | 4/7/2006 | n/a

[Pyro7480]

The "Da Vinci Code" is to Christianity as was "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was to slavery. Both have/had the aim of weakening each institution. The difference is Christianity is liberating for men, and slavery is a clear evil.

[Pyro7480]

Catholic ping!

[ExcursionGuy84]

Don't forget about Christians [like me] and Messianic Jews too.

[Antoninus]

The difference is Christianity is liberating for men, and slavery is a clear evil.

Not a great comparison.

I would compare the Duh Vinci Code to The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

[mtbopfuyn]

Excellent news! I'm going to lift my ban on Hollyweird to see this movie. Can't wait for Brown's next novel. He's a great read.

[HEY4QDEMS]

The DaVinci Code is fiction and I take it with a grain of salt.

[Lurking Libertarian]

Notwithstanding the merits of The DaVinci Code-- a book I have not read and have no intention of reading-- this was a very dangerous copyright case, and it is a very good thing for all authors that the court rejected it.

[siunevada]

Regardless of the judge's ruling, it's still hard to believe DB came up with this concept, and similar details to tell the story, out of the clear blue sky.

[Battle Hymn of the Republic]

the da vinci code is just another tool of deception for satan... and the people eat it up.

[HEY4QDEMS]

the da vinci code is just another tool of deception for satan... and the people eat it up

Perhaps the weak minded people do.

[antiRepublicrat]

Forget the religious angle -- this is important for all authors. The precedent, in the UK at least, is now that you can't sue for copyright infringement over general ideas and concepts. That's a good thing.

[Nihil Obstat]

just good lawyerin'

BTW - his wife is his "researcher" - she's the one who lifted the ideas.

[antiRepublicrat]

Regardless of the judge's ruling, it's still hard to believe DB came up with this concept, and similar details to tell the story, out of the clear blue sky.

Almost nothing comes out of the clear blue sky, but is based at least in a small part on something before.

[Lurking Libertarian]

Regardless of the judge's ruling, it's still hard to believe DB came up with this concept, and similar details to tell the story, out of the clear blue sky.

No one claims he did. But no one can copyright ideas or concepts.

[holden]

My friend, a tenured full professor of Biblical Hebrew, says Brown's book's version of history is absolutely preposterous, and that Brown apparently has little awareness of the very well-documented happenings among Christians in the first several centuries of the Common Era.

HF

[HEY4QDEMS]

Regardless of the judge's ruling, it's still hard to believe DB came up with this concept, and similar details to tell the story, out of the clear blue sky.

That's not important, you can not copyright a theme or genre.

The plaintiffs could not site a single passage from Brown that could support their claim, only that the novel involved a similar subject matter.

If they one, the author of the first dictionary can sue the author of the second. I'm thankful this case went before a judge, most juries are idiots.

[Nihil Obstat]

http://www.jesusdecoded.com/leonardo1.php

The Real Leonardo
By Elizabeth Lev

Along with trashing Christianity, Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code is a veritable museum of errors where Renaissance art is concerned. Art historians have been slow in responding, mostly because it is difficult to know where to start. The novelist’s imaginative notions of iconography may make for best-selling fiction, but they are wildly at variance with what is known about the life and work of Leonardo.

The Da Vinci Code denies Leonardo da Vinci’s identity as a Christian artist, working for Christian patrons and painting Christian subjects. Ignoring the sacred nature of Leonardo’s work, Brown twists the images, inserting them into a tawdry tale of his own making.

The author’s thumbnail sketch of Leonardo cavalierly disregards his birth and training, and dives directly into unsupported claims that Leonardo had “always been an awkward subject among historians, especially in the Christian tradition.” Yet Giorgio Vasari, the father of art history, writing a few years after the death of Leonardo, gives the painter pride of place in his biography, The Lives of the Artists....

[ExcursionGuy84]

Perhaps the weak minded people do.

I'm not weak-minded...but still, Lucifer & His Fallen Angels keep battering at the doors of my mind with thoughts of The DaVinci Code, doing everything possible to try to make me believe this and other lies of Satan.

Case-in-point: El Diablo just LOVES to decive Anyone, even firm, Jesus-Loving/believing/worshiping Christians, Catholics and Jews. Those who are GOD's are what Satan craves to take away by deception.

[Borges]

Fiction is a lie by definition.

[jamese777]

Keep repeating to yourselves: "its only a novel, its only a movie," "its only a novel, its only a movie," et cetera ad infinitum.