Stop The Da Vinci Code!

Chapter 10,345 in the book of life reads, “Anything which becomes wildly successful must be peppered with lawsuits from people who claim they did it first.”

The latest target is Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown, who appeared in London’s High Court on Monday to battle allegations that he nicked his research from historians Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh.

The duo claim that in their 1982 book Holy Blood, Holy Grail, they first promoted the theory that Jesus skipped his appointment on Golgotha, married Mary Magdalene and had a child. Oh, and that the Catholic church has been covering up the bloodline ever since. So far, so close to the Da Vinci Code plot, but Brown has countered that he cites and acknowledges Baigent and Leigh’s work, while his publishers Random House argued that the lawsuit challenges the ability of authors to write fiction.

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