ABC News Special on ``Jesus, Mary and Da Vinci'' Sure to Omit the Original Treatment of the Subject According to Author, Lewis Perdue.Business Editors/Legal Writers SONOMA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 31, 2003 Monday night's ABC News
ABC News is a division of American television and radio network ABC, owned by The Walt Disney Company. Its current president is David Westin. Special (Nov. 3, 2003) on "Jesus, Mary and Da Vinci da Vinci Surgery A surgical robot for performing certain surgeries–eg, mitral valve repair and laparoscopic procedures–eg, cholecystectomy and gastric ulcer repair. See Laparoscopic surgery, Robotics, Surgical robot. " is just the latest example of the intense current interest in religion, art and the life of Leonardo Da Vinci Leonardo da Vinci (də vĭn`chē, Ital. lāōnär`dō dä vēn`chē), 1452–1519, Italian painter, sculptor, architect, musician, engineer, and scientist, b. near Vinci, a hill village in Tuscany. . Ironically the original expression of that concept -- a thriller combining art, religion and Leonardo -- did not come from the current bestseller, The Da Vinci Code, but from The Da Vinci Legacy (published in 1983) and two other books by author Lewis Perdue Perdue may refer to:
The new edition of The Da Vinci Legacy, (by Tor Books) will be available in bookstores January 2004. While The Da Vinci Code has sparked heated debate about historical accuracy and interpretations of art and religious dogma, the ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. special is sure to skirt the ongoing questions about its extraordinary similarities with The Da Vinci Legacy, Daughter of God and The Linz Testament, all written by Perdue. Some of those similarities were brought to national attention in June 2003 by Newsweek and in a subsequent article by the Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. . "The law clearly states that plots, history, ideas, and facts cannot be copyrighted," Perdue said. "But my attorneys point out that the expression of those ideas is clearly protected. "Da Vinci Code contains so many striking similarities to my own books, including nearly identical characters and scenes, sequences of events and other protected forms of expression, that it makes it stretches the boundaries of coincidence." Perdue sent an initial list of those similarities to Da Vinci Code's publisher in June, and later posted the list on the Internet. Since then, he and his team of attorneys and experts have better developed that list of legally protected similarities. "Some similarities on the first list were not protected expression," Perdue said. "But thanks to some very keen legal minds and experts in the field, the list has been replaced with a far larger number of similarities, all of which fall into the protected category." Perdue said he expects to move ahead with litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute. When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation. once the detailed and tedious expert research is ready. "Money is not my object," Perdue said. "My wife and I have already decided to donate whatever we receive from this action to charity." |
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