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Post by shaho234 on Jan 14, 2024 5:49:30 GMT
This is the largest sum requested in history in intellectual property litigation. A Massachusetts writer has been seeking $400 million in damages from author Dan Brown since this week, accusing him of having plagiarized the book The Da Vinci Code . The information is from the legal information website Find Law . The postulant, John F. Dunn, alleges that Brown Special Data appropriated a large portion of the work The Vatican Boys , written by Dunn, published in November 1997. The action seeks redress from Dan Brown, publisher Random House and the studios that made the film of the same name, Sony Pictures Entertainment and Imagine Films Entertainment. Random House considers the lawsuit “completely meritless.” According to Dunn's lawsuit, filed in the Massachusetts District Court, when the candidate read Brown's work he was “goosebumped to feel that he was not only reading the Code, but had also written it.” Dunn claims to have received formal statements, without having asked for them, from several people, such as experts in literature and linguistics, commenting on the “shocking” similarities between the two works. He asserts that Brown would have had access to the book The Vatican Boys , since the work was published “many years before the Code , published in 2003”. Alleging that author Brown, publisher Random House and the film's distributors were “unjustly enriched” at his expense, Dunn is seeking $400 million in damages. Suzanne Herz, a spokeswoman for Brown and the publisher, says the accusation is baseless.
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