Die skrywer Dan Brown van Da Vinci Code-faam word beskuldig daarvan dat hy kopiereg regulasies oortree het. Die hofsaak is tans aan die gang:

Da Vinci Code trial nears end

London - A three-week long trial that has swung from the religious mysteries in The Da Vinci Code to the more humdrum world of copyright law approaches its climax in a British court on Monday.

Lawyers for Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, authors who claim millionaire novelist Dan Brown "appropriated the architecture" of their 1982 nonfiction book The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, are to begin their closing arguments in the High Court.

Baigent and Leigh are suing Random House, publishers of The Da Vinci Code, for copyright infringement.