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...Cherie might be expected to empathize with Brown's current travails. After all, she endured years of press sniping for her dress sense (those white pixie boots!) and her choice of friends (a newspaper printed topless photos of Cherie's confidante Carole Caplin on the day of a key Blair speech). The Blairs struggled to protect the privacy of their family life and once got an injunction to prevent a former nanny from penning a memoir. "Goodbye. I don't think we'll miss you," Cherie told the waiting press corps as the Blairs said farewell to Downing Street last...
...outcome, however, was the same. You can't call dibs on an idea. "Everybody is allowed to have ideas, so there's no legal protection for them," says legal commentator Ian Caplin. "But once you express an idea, the law says that copyright can protect that expression." But in this case, both courts agreed that the theories Baigent and Leigh are trying so hard to protect are ideas, not expression. So Brown - and anyone else - is free to use them. Upholding last year's ruling, the appeals court said that the law can't be used to "monopolize historical research...
...That the case even got to an appeal says a lot about how unusual it is. "This case stretched the envelope in terms of the traditional copyright claim scenario," says Caplin. Most copyright trials deal with more obvious breaches of the law, like when chunks of text are lifted from one source and plunked down into another. Cases of cut-and-paste can be pretty cut-and-dry. But the Da Vinci Code case deals with the intangible concepts of ideas, theories and themes. "Has Brown taken away abstract ideas from another source, ideas that are too general...
...British Prime Minister Tony Blair. Cherie whipped up a Fleet Street froth over her association with Peter Foster, an Australian con man who has done jail time on three continents, mostly over false claims for diet ads, and who was fighting depor-tation. Foster had become chums with CAROLE CAPLIN, an ex-topless model (it just keeps getting better) who serves as Cherie's personal trainer and style guru. When Cherie asked Caplin to look at a flat for the Blairs' college-bound son, Foster helped negotiate the buy--an arrangement Cherie imprudently denied through Downing Street aides. Cherie...
...Penn strategy for the race was based on avoiding last weekend's mistakes: "We got behind Yale at the start last week, and that's why they beat us," Penn six-man Josh Caplin said after the race. "So we knew that we were going to go out real hard for the first thousand...