Wednesday, March 08, 2006

THE LATEST on the Da Vinci Code lawsuit:
Plot thickens in Da Vinci Code case
(The Scotsman)

An author who claims his theories on Christian heresies were copied in The Da Vinci Code (DVC) came face to face with the Grand Inquisitor.

The inquisitor took the shape of John Baldwin QC, the barrister representing publisher Random House which is being sued for copyright infringement.

And Michael Baigent, co-writer of The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail (HBHG), agreed in the witness box that some of the evidence in his statement to the High Court was "false".

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Also, there are more details in this London Times article. Baigent's testimony was so lame it makes me wonder if he isn't deliberately throwing the case now that he's got his publicity.

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