I would have thought so!
Two steaming cups of chocolate goodness. Courtesy of whomever I swiped it from out of the cupboard.
Ben ,'The Killer In Me'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
sumi - Feb 27, 2006 11:58:12 am PST #31 of 28093
Art Crawl!!!
Nutty - Feb 27, 2006 12:15:05 pm PST #32 of 28093
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
If Brown provably lifted the detailed plot from somebody else's work, then it would be infringement (plagiarism isn't actually a legal thing). But if Brown is just a huge hack, who had the same fricken idea as everybody else on the planet, NSM.
Both books contain the idea Jesus had a child.
If that's the extent of the claim, then these authors need to sue Kevin Smith for Dogma as well.
I know there have been legit infringement cases won -- some screenplays in the 80s, e.g. -- but I imagine it's incredibly hard to prove that somebody actually did have and read your book, especially when the content is fairly common material.
Aims - Feb 27, 2006 12:18:45 pm PST #33 of 28093
Shit's all sorts of different now.
See, then they'd lose against Kevin Smith cause I don't see him reading anything that isn't his own work, anyway.
Unless it had pictures.
JZ - Feb 27, 2006 12:23:00 pm PST #34 of 28093
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Wait, what did I miss in Dogma? I thought the Jesus lineage in that movie was through His sibs. Am I on teh crack?
Jessica - Feb 27, 2006 12:23:27 pm PST #35 of 28093
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
The two books are similar enough that every time someone wants to do a TV special on The Da Vinci Code, they come to us for clips from The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail. (The TV doc based on the book.)
If Brown provably lifted the detailed plot from somebody else's work, then it would be infringement
But nonfiction books don't have plots, is my issue. I just don't see how their claim has any merit.
Nutty - Feb 27, 2006 12:25:34 pm PST #36 of 28093
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I thought the Jesus lineage in that movie was through His sibs. Am I on teh crack?
Possibly, or else I am. The Last Scion isn't, like, the scion of the big dude himself? I think it would be a big letdown to be the last scion of the big dude's second cousin. Not even on the divine side!
JZ - Feb 27, 2006 12:27:53 pm PST #37 of 28093
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I'm pretty sure the LS is just a S of the Big Dude's family bloodline. I think. I really need to get my special edition DVD back from my mom.
ChiKat - Feb 27, 2006 12:41:38 pm PST #38 of 28093
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
JZ, you remember as I do, but then, we could both be wrong.
connie, if you liked that book, you might like some stuff by Marcus Borg, specifically Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time which goes into historical Jesus vs. theological Jesus (keeping in mind that Borg is a Christian). He goes into a lot of literary criticism stuff, too.
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 27, 2006 12:54:03 pm PST #39 of 28093
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Rufus made a big point of the unlikelihood of Mary remaining a virgin during all her years of marriage to Joseph, and said the line of the Last Scion went back to Jesus' sibling(s). So, a blessed and free-of-original sin progenitor, but not actual divine origin.
esse - Feb 27, 2006 5:32:05 pm PST #40 of 28093
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
(ps love the thread title.)