Brown vindicated in Da Vinci Code court case

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London - Best-selling author Dan Brown was vindicated Friday in a British court battle with two historians who accused him of plagiarising their non-fiction book to write his religious thriller The Da Vinci Code.

A judge at the High Court in London said that while Brown may have copied bits of the 1982 book The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, that did not amount to a breach of copyright.

"Even if the central themes were copied, they are too general or of too low a level of abstraction to be capable of protection by copyright," Judge Peter Smith told the court.
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Take that Christian Righters!!! Now lets go on with the movie!!!