DA VINCI CODE TRIAL UPDATE:

Da Vinci copy claim 'in tatters' (BBC)

A lawyer for author Dan Brown has told the High Court that claims he stole ideas for The Da Vinci Code have been left "in tatters".

John Baldwin QC, representing publisher Random House, said the evidence made it a "travesty" to say Mr Brown lifted from The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail.

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Mr Baldwin claimed the claimants' case would fail "even if Mr Brown had taken these ideas".

"The ideas are of too general a nature to be capable of copyright protection," said Mr Baldwin.

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