DaVinci Defense: You Can’t Be Robbed Of What Isn’t Yours

As the copyright infringement case against DaVinci Code author Dan Brown continues in London, it has become clear that Brown’s defense team plans to argue that the ideas the plaintiffs claim were stolen from them are so general that their use does not constitute a violation. Brown does acknowledge that he added some elements to the novel after reading The Holy Blood & The Holy Grail, but says that the ideas were not original to that book’s authors anyway.