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...other cheek. On Wednesday Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, authors of The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, lost their lawsuit against publisher Random House - again - when Britain's Court of Appeal ruled that Dan Brown had not stolen their ideas for his mega-hit cryptic thriller The Da Vinci Code...
...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 to get copyright protection?" says Caplin. "Or has he taken something that is an expression of an idea, which could have protection? Those questions...
...encourages them to learn more about the fraternity. The site is a far cry from the Freemason’s enduring image as a super-secret society, but that’s the point. “We’re not like ‘The Da Vinci Code’ or anything like that in any sense,” Justin V. Rodriguez ’07, a Freemason and member of the Harvard lodge, says. “We’re not a secret society. We’re a society with secrets...
...compare to old-fashioned bookstore browsing, I’m willing to admit this is one combination that seems to be compatible. So maybe technology and literature can find happiness together. I’ll endorse anything that rescues an innocent reader from “The Da Vinci Code.” —Staff writer Madeline K.B. Ross can be reached at mross@fas.harvard.edu...
...students. 5) Design your own “start-up company” (i.e., lemonade stand). 6) Do business school and psych studies all summer long. Guaranteed $15 an hour. 7) Get some mileage out of that History of Art and Architecture coursework: Write a “Da Vinci Code” knock-off. 8) Put your online poker skills to the test: Go to Las Vegas and win your first million. Or lose next year’s tuition money. 9) Be like Leo in “The Departed” and join the family business?...