The Da Vinci Crock

"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 request for $300K+ in attorneys' fees, dismissed.

"No plagiarist can excuse the wrong by showing how much of his work he did not pirate."
-- Mr. Justice Learned Hand

Monday, March 14, 2016

Vanity fair article

Read Vanity Fair's take (PDF full version with photos)... ...on the plagiarism. Written by Seth Mnookin , now at MIT.

Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Winners and Losers

After taking some time to think about how things turned, it seems appropriate to add up the scoreboard. First of all, what I wanted was cred...

Thursday, December 07, 2006

Coin-Toss "Justice:" Case of the Dwindling Docket Mystifies the Supreme Court

It looks like Random House simply lucked out at the Supreme Court rather than prevailing because of something more substantial. The New York...

Sunday, November 26, 2006

The BIG, BIG Unanswered Question That Will Always Remain

Why was Random House SO afraid of having the expert witness analysis heard in court?

Monday, November 13, 2006

Supremes Singing Different Tune

Word came down today that the U.S. Supreme Court denied my writ of certiorari and will not hear the case. They didn't address the substa...

Thursday, October 05, 2006

Justice = A Matter of Federal Court Shopping

Just like the bad, old Jim Crow days, "justice" in America is, in large part, a matter of where you happen to live. Or -- like my ...

Thursday, September 28, 2006

Secret Service confirms that Dan Brown is a non-truth teller

Back on May 20, 2005, I blogged a Writopia piece called "Sanitizing Digital Fortress" in which I reported that there seemed to b...

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Random House Attorney's Fee Demand -- My Prayers Answered

U.S. District Court Judge Daniels has ruled that I do _not_ have to pay the $310,000+ that Random House spent in legal fees to sue me. Judge...

Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Vanity Fair

For anyone still interested, Seth Mnookin -- who wrote the piece -- has the whole thing (minus photos) available at his site.

Thursday, August 17, 2006

Petition of Certiorari Filed With U.S. Supreme Court

The document (.pdf) can be found here . High School Friends Reunite in Petition to U.S. Supreme Court FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 9, 2006 C...

Monday, July 31, 2006

Quality of Life

I received the following email from a reader and supporter who has expressed the opinion that Dan Brown plagiarized my books: This probably ...

Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Miscarriage of Justice

One thing that the Vanity Fair article has done is create an air of disbelief that the judge denied a trial. Mnookin's piece clearly pro...

Monday, June 12, 2006

One key reason that Random House cannot afford for me to get a fair trial

From The Daily Post I can prove Da Vinci Code tale was plagiarised Jun 12 2006 By Ed James, Daily Post A LANGUAGE expert from mid W...

Saturday, June 10, 2006

Ahamedd Saaddoodeen.: The REAL-LIFE Puzzle in the DVCode

I received two emails this morning from France indicating that the real DVCode puzzle (as opposed to the contrived marketing stuff), is WHO ...

Publisher's Weakly

I've gotten several emails about the inaccurate and slanted coverage by Publisher's Weekly , many of them from people in the publis...

Friday, June 09, 2006

Publisher's Weekly: Silence Speaks Loudly

I sent the following email yesterday to the Editor-in-Chief of Publisher's Weekly . No reply. It's more than a little frustrating to...

"Legal" Does Not Equal "Moral"

Or just. Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller says it best: Copyright 2006, Reprinted by permission. All Rights Reserved. And there's no doub...

Thursday, June 08, 2006

Publisher's Weekly: Standing Up FOR The Big Guy

I received an email from one of my European publishers with a couple of paragraphs from Publisher's Weekly about the Vanity Fair artic...

Wednesday, June 07, 2006

Boston Paper Plagiarizes Plagiarism Story

From Huffington Post: Boston Herald Rips Off E&P in Meta-Media Plagiarism Story "In a bizarre irony, HuffPo's ETP has ...

Tuesday, June 06, 2006

Self-Righteous Blather From Random House

From Publisher's Weekly: " Doubleday expectedly had no comment on the story. A statement from spokesperson Suzanne Herz said: '...

Upcoming 'Vanity Fair' Article Raises New Issues About 'DaVinci Code' Author

The July 2006 issue of Vanity Fair , which is scheduled to be on the news stands in New York and L.A. tomorrow (June 13 for rest of world) ,...

Thursday, April 20, 2006

Bad Reporting & Random House's Twisted Spin

This piece by Rachel Deahl from the April 20, 2006 issue of Publisher's Weekly Daily conveniently neglects the truth of the matter: I d...

The Battle Continues

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals violated its own rules regarding summary judgement and about considering works as a whole in copyright i...

Sunday, April 16, 2006

Happy Birthday, Leonardo!

A day late! (Sorry dude). Good details here. Below are some of the photos taken in 1981 when I researched material for The Da Vinci Legacy ....

Yet Another Plagiarism Suit Against Brown

Brown faces second plagiarism claim This one in Russia: "Dr Mikhail Anikin has claimed that Brown has plagiarised his book, Leonardo Da...

Saturday, April 15, 2006

Why No New Posts Here?

I've received a lot of emails asking why I don't have a lot of new posts. Well, it's NOT because nothing has been happening and...

Friday, April 07, 2006

Dan Brown Wins in London

MSNBC has the first mention of what should be a tsunami of stories today. As I pointed out in an earlier post , I felt that Baigent & L...

Thursday, April 06, 2006

Random House Lies, The Saga Continues

Because there are no perjury penalties for lawyers who lie in their court filings (a lie being distortions, misrepresentations, falsehoods, ...

Tuesday, March 21, 2006

Brown's Witless Statement Critiqued

This blog post, "Dan Brown's statement to the court tells us how little he knows," by Sandra Miesel (co-author with Carl Ols...

Monday, March 20, 2006

Dan: Just "Reworking" Not Plagiarizing?

Regardless of how the trial comes out in London, Dan and Blythe are now known as shameless rippers-off of other people's work -- a far c...

Sunday, March 19, 2006

It's Just Fiction .... (Really!?)

I was clicking around some of Carl Olson's sites and finally found an article I have been looking for since the James Frey, A Million Li...

Is Dan Brown a "Liar?"

This post at the Da Vinci Hoax blog indicates that the London judge may think so. This blog also has a courtwatcher "over there" ...

Saturday, March 18, 2006

Effects on the DVCode Movie

RC of strangeculture.blogspot.com left an interesting comment last light on my previous post. I've elevated it here because it is a goo...

Thursday, March 16, 2006

London: Details Devil Dan; Jovial Judge Joshes About

Dan Brown's testimony was book-ended by two publishers who added little to the proceedings. The first few minutes were taken up by Patri...

Wednesday, March 15, 2006

No Comment Needed

From Dan Brown's witness statement (points 67, 68) "I did receive numerous offers for the film rights to Angels & Demons, but ...

Brown Whines About Simon & Schuster and St. Martin's Press

Brown's witness statement, posted online by The Times contains some choice comments about his former publishers. He echoes a common gri...

London: Brown Sweats & Forgets; Blythe Ascends

First a note: Dan Brown's witness statement has been posted online by The Times . It makes for some very interesting reading. Now, for t...

Monday, March 13, 2006

Blythe Brown: The Missing Witness

Dan Brown took the stand today and this morning's testimony was mainly designed to establish how he did research (in collaboration with ...

Friday, March 10, 2006

Da Vinci Court in London: Leigh Proves Strong Witness Against Brown

Dispatch from Da Vinci Crock's London Correspondent: The afternoon session started when Richard Leigh was called to the stand and contra...

Thursday, March 09, 2006

London: Baigent Does Better, Random House Dodging Key Issues

From our London Correspondent: There was a mention of Dan Brown testifying on Monday and providing a witness statement Monday morning. Uncle...

The Importance of Being Blythe

The absence of Blythe Brown on the witness stand in London has been the source of much astonishment given the prominent role everyone says s...

Wednesday, March 08, 2006

Da Vinci Code in the Dock - Baigent Continues to Shoot Self in Foot

Da Vinci Crock's London Correspondent filed the following dispatch and offered a couple of relevant links. "The courtroom was less ...

Tuesday, March 07, 2006

Report from the Da Vinci Code-Holy Blood, Holy Grail Trial

I am extremely fortunate to have a European friend who has been keeping an eye on the Da Vinci Code-Holy Blood, Holy Grail trial. This frien...

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