Who do we all reckon is going to win? Time for a bit of gambling. Geeklawyer has only read the news report and not the case papers but he reckons Dan Brown, the defendant, is going to win: he reckons that the ‘taking’ is not going to be substantial enough, insufficient overborrowing of the prior works. Off, then, to Ladbrokes to plonk down a couple of hundred quid.
Of course, he deserves to fail for writing such a load of rubbish but then that never stopped Jeffrey Archer.
[…] Thursday 7th 2pm: Dan Brown appears to have won his case an his book (as predicted by Geeklawyer) doesn’t infringe the copyright in “Holy Blood Holy Grail”. Full judgement not seen but the central claim of theft of an idea, i.e. theft of the structure, has been knocked out. […]