この記事の記者が書きたい事は、裁判起こして著書の宣伝するよりも素直にダン・ブラウン様有り難うございました、と感謝しなさいよ、ということだと思います。私もそう思うけどなあ～。
まあ、レンヌ～の本も面白かったけど、アイデア自体は独自のものではなかったしね。ただ、それを丹念に調査して、いろいろな仮説を立ててまとめた点は、十分に意義があったし、楽しくて有用な本だったけど、彼らの本をパクっていうのはほとんど言いがかりでしょう。
今回の裁判の記事は、もう世界中のものを何十も読んだけど、やっぱり英国の裁判所もこんなものまで著作権で認めたら大変なことになる…っていう感じみたいだしね。まあ、映画公開前の話題作りで、コロンビアが実はやらせで依頼してたりして…（爆笑）。
How 'The Da Vinci Code' Has Benefited 'Holy Blood, Holy Grail'
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Perhaps instead of suing him, they should be thanking him. Two of the three authors of Holy Blood, Holy Grail, Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, are in court arguing that bestselling author Dan Brown stole their ideas for his novel The Da Vinci Code. But ever since the 2003 thriller hit bookstores and climbed the charts, sales for books on the Knights Templar, the Holy Grail and The Da Vinci Code knock-offs, have gone up with it.
Currently on The Book Standard’s Fiction Chart, The Da Vinci Code is No. 5, and two other books also show this trend: The Templar Legacy, by Steve Barry, and The Last Templar, by Raymond Khoury.
According to Nielsen BookScan, the 1983 paperback version of Holy Blood, Holy Grail, by Baigent, Leigh and Henry Lincoln, sold 165 units in 2001 and 9,000 units in 2002. Then in 2003, ten years after it was originally published, the book sold 78,000 units. Guess what else was published in 2003?
In 2004, Holy Blood, Holy Grail sold almost 100,000 units and it kept a solid hold in 2005, selling 42,000 units. The media surrounding the Da Vinci trial will surely help sales for the book: So far in 2006, it has sold more than 5,000 units.
