LAWYERS for two authors who claim novelist Dan Brown stole their ideas for his blockbuster novel The Da Vinci Code urged Britain’s Court of Appeal yesterday to overturn Brown’s victory in the copyright infringement case.

THE judge hearing The Da Vinci Code “copying” case challenged its author yesterday over when he read the book whose authors are claiming he lifted their ideas.

American Dan Brown, one of the highest paid authors in history, faced a High Court claim today that the central theme of his blockbuster novel, The Da Vinci Code, was copied from an earlier work.