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Historians Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, authors of the 1982 book The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail, have revealed that they are to appeal against the verdict in their plagiarism case against the author of The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown.
Baigent and Leigh had claimed that Brown had copied ideas from their book. They sued Random House, which published Brown's book as well as their own. The copyright case was won by Random House in April this year.
UK sales of The Da Vinci Code could have been stopped, along with the release of a film based on the book, if the judge had determined that Brown took ideas from the earlier book.
According to Reuters, officials said that the appeal may take place later this year, although a specific date has not yet been set.
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