|
I find the Da Vinci court case interesting, for this reason: The plaintiffs are asserting that their ideas were stolen, ie their intellectual property and copyrighted work. But their book (upon which TDVC is based) is supposedly an attempt at historical fact. So the question posed is thus: should it be possible for a historian to 'copyright history'. On the basis of their assertion that their book is an attempt at fact, the court case should surely fail, as otherwise the consequences for historical fiction would be devastating. Or at least, that's how it seems to me.
|