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Much though I detest Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code and the specious, overplumped conspiracy theories that undergird it, I am glad Brown won this lawsuit. It would make all writers scared to write, plain and simply, had Leigh and Baignent prevailed. As shitty as Brown's stilted, hackneyed, and riddled-with-factual-errors prose may be, it should not be considered plagiarism for using the same sources and even for using Leigh and Baignent's platform as a layout. Brown made the cobbled-together gnostic fantasy into a heretical tinfoil-hat-crowd detective story as well as a clumsy and blasphemous broadside against the Catholic Church and Christianity in general, and played out the clues and solutions in a way that makes it unique if not original.
On the other hand, I think the two should appeal (though, according to British law they might not be allowed to - I am not very clear on the laws governing appeals in Great Britain) this decision. Of course they should really do so because actually paying up will ruin them both financially and they need relief from the fines and legal bills. As important as it is that Brown successfully defend his work, it is also important to allow qualified plaintiffs (qualified in that they have real evidence to make a plausible case of plagiarism and are not wasting the court and the county's time and money) to sue writers who rip off other writers.
Now, the stress of having to side with one of the worst writers in the English language has made me tired. I think I need to lie down and go to sleep.
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