"Perdue's claim was not objectively unreasonable, and there was no evidence that Perdue pursued his claims with an improper motive and/or in bad faith."
-- U.S. District Court Judge George Daniels.
- Random House sued ME; not the other way around.
- Random House filed suit to silence the facts I was posting on the web.
- There has been NO trial on the facts, only the Random House effort to prevent a trial.
- NO expert testimony was allowed despite three international plagiarism experts who were willing to testif that it existed.
- The only sworn statements made under penalty of perjury are affidavits from me and my experts, nothing from RH.
- The judge refused to consider any expert analysis.
- Despite suing me first, Random House & Sony UNsuccessfully demanded that I pay the $310,000 in legal fees they spent to sue me.
- Contrary to the Random House spin, I am not alleging plagiarism of general issues, but of several hundred very specific ones.
- This is not about money. Anything I win goes to charity.
I have a second blog, Writopia
which focuses on Dan Brown's pattern of falsehoods
and embellishment of his personal achievements.
posted by Lewis Perdue at 9:51 AM
5 Comments:
Lew what this "divine dimension" thing in DVC 1.618?
Brown tries to show off his mastery of divine proportion through a conversation with a bunch of fictional undergraduates who come off as so stupidbthat they'd never get into the local JC, much less Hah-vahd.
The subject was much abler (and more interestingly) covered by Mario Livio in his book, The Golden Ratio: The Story of PHI, the World's Most Astonishing Number
Basically Brown's rendition is a dumbed-down version of why we see that ratio in nature all the time from the chambers in a nautilus shell, to sunflowers etc.
The Greeks also found that rectangles with this proportion are exceedingly pleasing to the eye ... Livio's book is a fun read.
Actually the number is 1.61803398874989...ad infinitum, this being an irrational number just like pi.
And for a quick tutorial, head here: http://www.geocities.com/~jlhagan/lessons/design2.htm
Vanessa, which complain would that be?
There are many filings ... mine and from Random House.
Click on the links on that page and you'll get a menu of filings.
Vanessa: go here http://www.davincilegacy.com/Infringement/ and scroll down to:
Random House's Sept. 17, 2004 request for Declaratory Judgment (self-extracting file, double-click to view)
Vanessa, that is tne filing.
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