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Da Vinci challengers will appeal

Two authors who lost a copyright battle against best-selling novel The Da Vinci Code earlier this year have been given permission to challenge the verdict. The authors' lawyers said the appeal had "a real prospect of success". Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh claimed author Dan Brown had copied ideas from their 1982 book, The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail. No date has been set for the hearing. However, it is expected to take place later this year or in early 2007. more

bbc.co.uk , 12 July 2006

Da Vinci Code: Behind the scenes

he Da Vinci Code movie, which is released worldwide today, was part-filmed in Lincolnshire. Wayne Berriman - a civil servant from Lincoln, tells us how he got involved in the filming of the movie and what he got out of the experience. I heard on the local radio, that they were struggling to get cast for the filming. I was surprised, because there was so much publicity around the book. So me and a friend of mine decided to offer our services. more

bbc.co.uk , 19 May 2006

'Millions' flock to Da Vinci Code

The Da Vinci Code movie took $224m (£119m) at box offices around the world at the weekend despite controversy and bad reviews, its distributor has said. That is the second most successful film opening in history, Columbia said. It could not beat Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, which made $253m (£135m) in its first weekend last year. more

bbc.co.uk , Monday, 22 May 2006

Film set to fan Da Vinci furore

The eagerly awaited film of The Da Vinci Code is the most controversial Hollywood movie since Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ. Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou in The Da Vinci Code Tom Hanks co-stars in the film with French actress Audrey Tautou But what can Ron Howard's adaptation add to the furore that has surrounded Dan Brown's best-selling novel since it first arrived in bookstores in 2003? For a book revolving around a labyrinthine mystery, it is remarkable how many of its "surprise" elements have become common knowledge. more

bbc.co.uk , Tuesday, 16 May 2006

Da Vinci falls short of UK record

The Da Vinci Code movie has taken £9.5m at box offices in the UK and Ireland in its first three days of release. That puts it at number 15 on the all-time list of the most successful opening weekends, according to box office company Nielsen EDI. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, which made £23.9m when it made its debut in 2004, holds the record. more

bbc.co.uk ,

Church spoof for 'Da Vinci mass'

Anglican clerics have challenged the controversial content of The Da Vinci Code by swapping places with actors in a spoof version of the film's poster. The Dean of Manchester Cathedral, the Reverend Rogers Morgan Govender, fills in for Tom Hanks with his colleagues posing as the film's other stars. The mock-up was being used to promote a "Da Vinci Code mass" at the cathedral. more

bbc.co.uk , Tuesday, 30 May 2006

India extends Da Vinci Code ban

The government of the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh has banned the release of the Hollywood film The Da Vinci Code. "The release of the movie could have led to demonstrations and trouble," said Andhra Pradesh's special chief secretary, Paul Bhuyan. Andhra Pradesh is the seventh Indian state to have banned the screening of the film, which was released in May. more

bbc.co.uk , Sat, 3 June 2006

Pakistan bans Da Vinci Code film

Pakistan has banned The Da Vinci Code, which has been the subject of protests from members of Pakistan's small Christian community. Culture Minister Ghulam Jamal said the film was blasphemous. The screen adaptation of Dan Brown's book revolves around the theory that Jesus married Mary Magdalene and their descendants survive today. more

bbc.co.uk news , Sunday, 4 June 2006

Town's Da Vinci Code tourism hope

Business leaders in Llangollen are hoping for a tourism spin-off from the literary blockbuster turned film, The Da Vinci Code. The big screen version of Dan Brown's best-selling novel is expected to follow it as a global success. One local legend suggests Joseph of Arimathea brought the Holy Grail to nearby Dinas Brân Castle for safe-keeping in the First Century. more

bbc.co.uk , 10 May 2006

India Catholics target Da Vinci

Roman Catholics in the Indian city of Mumbai (Bombay) are taking part in worldwide protests against the release of the movie, The Da Vinci Code. Hundreds of members of a Catholic group gathered outside a convent school in the Indian financial capital to protest against its release next week. more

bbc.co.uk , 10 May 2006

Hanks reacts to Da Vinci critics

Da Vinci Code star Tom Hanks has said the film of Dan Brown's controversial best-seller is just "a good story" that should not be taken too seriously. The actor told London's Evening Standard newspaper the film was loaded with "hooey" and "nonsense". "If you are going to take any sort of movie at face value, particularly a huge-budget motion picture like this, you'd be making a very big mistake." more

bbc.co.uk , 12 May 2006

Da Vinci Code judge honours hero

The judge in the Da Vinci Code libel case has called for the admiral he referred to in a code hidden in his High Court ruling to be honoured. Mr Justice Peter Smith said he thought the empty plinth in Trafalgar Square should be dedicated to his hero Admiral Jackie Fisher. He made the comments while officially opening an exhibition on the warships at the Royal Naval Museum, Portsmouth. more

bbc.co.uk , 12 May 2006

Overdosing On 'The Da Vinci Code'

(CBS) The movie isn't even out yet, and I've already overdosed on "The Da Vinci Code." Publicity about the book or the movie is inescapable, as are the many commercial offshoots from Team Da Vinci. There is a Da Vinci Code jigsaw puzzle, a Da Vinci Code travel journal, and a Da Vinci Code board game. There is also "Fodor's Guide to the Da Vinci Code" which follows the paths of the novel's characters. more

cbsnews.com , May 10, 2006

Hanks: Don't Take 'Code' Too Seriously

(CBS/AP) Actor Tom Hanks has a message to critics of his latest film, "The Da Vinci Code": Relax. In an interview with a London newspaper, Hanks said, "We always knew there would be a segment of society that would not want this movie to be shown. "But the story we tell is loaded with all sorts of hooey and fun kind of scavenger-hunt-type nonsense," Hanks told London's Evening Standard. more

cbsnews.com , May 13, 2006

Group demands Da Vinci disclaimer

Catholic group Opus Dei has asked for a disclaimer to be placed on the film of The Da Vinci Code, released next month. The organisation said it had written to Sony Pictures executives in Japan to ask the studio to emphasise that the film was a work of fantasy. Based on Dan Brown's novel, The Da Vinci Code claims Jesus Christ married Mary Magdalene and had children, which was covered up by the Catholic Church. more

bbc.co.uk , Sun, 16 April 2006

Archbishop rejects mystery mania

Conspiracy theories or the discovery of ancient texts will not weaken the Gospel, the Archbishop of Canterbury has said in his Easter Sunday sermon. The Gospel of Judas and the Da Vinci Code foster a sense of mystery, but the Easter message lives in Christian experience, Dr Rowan Williams said. more

bbc.co.uk , Sun, 16 April 2006

Da Vinci in new plagiarism claim

A Russian art historian has accused The Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown of plagiarism, just days after a British court rejected a similar claim. Mikhail Anikin, from St Petersburg, said he would sue Brown if he did not receive an apology and compensation. He claims Brown stole his idea that Leonardo Da Vinci was also a theologian and his Mona Lisa portrait was an allegory for the Christian Church. more

bbc.co.uk , Wed, 12 April 2006

Da Vinci film faces ban in Korea

A religious group in Korea has applied for a provisional injunction to stop the release of the movie version of the novel The Da Vinci Code. The Christian Council of Korea (CCK) filed its application in Seoul against the film's distributor Sony Pictures, according to Screen International. more

bbc.co.uk , Sat, 8 April 2006

'Da Vinci' Author Wins Court Fight

(CBS/AP) A judge ruled Friday that mega-selling author Dan Brown did not steal ideas for "The Da Vinci Code" from a nonfiction work, ending the suspense about the case with an ultimately unsurprising decision. High Court judge Peter Smith rejected a copyright-infringement claim by Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, authors of "The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail," who claimed that Brown's blockbuster "appropriated the architecture" of their 1982 book. In the United States, the book is titled, "Holy Blood, Holy Grail." more

cbsnews.com , Friday,April 7, 2006

'No surprise' in Da Vinci judgement

After the High Court ruled Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown did not breach the copyright of an earlier book, BBC News website assesses the case's impact. This judgment was expected. Since there is no copyright in an idea, any claim for breach of copyright must rest on the way that the idea is expressed. In this case, it was described as the "architecture" or "structure" of the work, The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail. more

bbc.co.uk , Friday, 7 April 2006

Reaction to Da Vinci Code ruling

In the wake of the High Court ruling that writer Dan Brown did not copy the work of two authors for his best-selling novel The Da Vinci Code, those involved in the case have given their reactions. oday's verdict shows that this claim was utterly without merit. I'm still astonished that these two authors chose to file their suit at all. But this decision also touches on a wider issue. A novelist must be free to draw appropriately from historical works without fear that he'll be sued and forced to stand in a courtroom facing a series of allegations that call into question his very integrity as a person. more

bbc.co.uk , Friday, 7 April 2006

The Da Vinci Code, the Catholic Church and Opus Dei

Many people are intrigued by the claims about Christian history and theology presented in The Da Vinci Code. We would like to remind them that The Da Vinci Code is a work of fiction, and it is not a reliable source of information on these matters. The Da Vinci Code has raised public interest in the origins of the Bible and of central Christian doctrines such as the divinity of Jesus Christ. These topics are important and valuable to study, and we hope that interested readers will be motivated to study some of the abundant scholarship on them that is available in the non-fiction section of the library. more

opusdei.org , March 23, 2006

'Da Vinci' effect: Books come to Jesus

NEW YORK (Reuters) -- A wave of religious books is coming to bookstores to cash in on "The Da Vinci Code" movie in May, including a book saying Jesus survived crucifixion and an evangelical novel with a modern-day Mary Magdalene heroine. Americans are finally able to buy Dan Brown's best seller in paperback on Tuesday, three years after it was first published, and with "Da Vinci Code" fever as strong as ever, it's never been so profitable to write about Christianity. more

cnn.com , Tuesday, March 28, 2

'Da Vinci Code' case nears ending

LONDON, England (Reuters) -- A court case in which two historians accuse Dan Brown of copying their work in his novel "The Da Vinci Code" is due to finish on Monday, ending one of the most closely watched copyright claims of recent years. Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh wrote "The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail", a work of historical conjecture published in 1982, which shares some of the same themes as Brown's best-selling religious thriller. more

cnn.com , Sunday, March 19, 20


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