If I wrote a book about the Kennedy assassination, a totally factual book, and someone made a film using my research, you bet I'd want my money.
If I was Jim Lovell and I wrote a book about Apollo 13, and someone made a film based on what was in my book, ditto.
If I'm Simon Schama and someone made a TV series based on one of my books, I'd expect to be getting rich from it.
No, Brown writing a book by stealing someone else's work and presenting it as his own is copyright theft. (If indeed that's what happened, which is still debatable).
You can't claim history for yourself, but anything you write has automatic copyright, plus of course this stuff has an actual copyright date etc.
And it may or may not be important that the people that are being sued are Random House (not Dan Brown) who are the publishers of *both* Dan Brown *and* HB & HG!
And yes, I think HB & HG is based on a false premise, but that doesn't mean that people through history haven't believed it and haven't done some of the things claimed in the book. After all, there are a lot of people that would claim the bible is total fiction ...
Are you serious?
If I was Jim Lovell and I wrote a book about Apollo 13, and someone made a film based on what was in my book, ditto.
If I'm Simon Schama and someone made a TV series based on one of my books, I'd expect to be getting rich from it.
No, Brown writing a book by stealing someone else's work and presenting it as his own is copyright theft. (If indeed that's what happened, which is still debatable).
You can't claim history for yourself, but anything you write has automatic copyright, plus of course this stuff has an actual copyright date etc.
And it may or may not be important that the people that are being sued are Random House (not Dan Brown) who are the publishers of *both* Dan Brown *and* HB & HG!
And yes, I think HB & HG is based on a false premise, but that doesn't mean that people through history haven't believed it and haven't done some of the things claimed in the book. After all, there are a lot of people that would claim the bible is total fiction ...