DA VINCI CODE is Cleared
By: News EditorDate: Monday, August 08, 2005
Source: Reuters
On Friday, it was announced that Dan Brown has won a court ruling against author Lewis Perdue who claimed his book THE DA VINCI CODE copied elements from two of his books. The suit was for $150 million in damages.
Perdue had claimed CODE infringed on the copyright of his novels DAUGHTER OF GOD and THE DA VINCI LEGACY, and that Brown had copied the basic premis of DAUGHTER.
The N.Y. judge presiding over the case stated "a reasonable average lay observer would not conclude that 'The Da Vinci Code' is substantially similar to 'Daughter of God'."
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#1 - bigbadbuffyfan [ Aug 7 2005, 11:32 pm PDT ]
This really has nothing to do with the article above, but I have a question to ask all of you. How can we get the guy who seems to be writing all the articles on MOVIES.COM fired? This jackass just insults my personal tastes on a daily bases and I'm sure most of you can relate. Yeah, he's funny on occasion, but the guy has alienated me for the last time! Let's get this guy. Any ideas?
#2 - qwed88 [ Aug 8 2005, 12:03 am PDT ]
bigbadbuffyfan, WTF are you talking about?
#3 - bigbadbuffyfan [ Aug 8 2005, 3:05 am PDT ]
I'm talking about movies.com, one of the largest movie sights on the web. There's this writer who does the buzz for upcoming projects. He has to be the most anoying film/tv commentator ever. EVER. And I find his views on most of the projects to be uneducated and protentious at the same time. This guy makes fun of the project, while claiming to know all about it- when the actual fan community has been excited about the project for a long time. I hate it! And finally he made one too many cracks about Serenity, which crossed a line. I wouldn't hate it so much if this was some obscure critic, but this stuff is read "objectively" by thousands of the more mainstream audience members every day. His uneducated opinion actually effects a movies interest level online. How and why is this guy still writing?