The Da Vinci Code, the blockbuster thriller, does not infringe the copyright of a book published in 2000 by another author because the books are not substantially similar, a federal appeals court says.

Author Dan Brown has been accused of plagiarism in The Da Vinci Code just days after he was cleared in London's High Court of similar allegations.

The London court case over The Da Vinci Code is being hailed as one reason for the resurgence in popularity of Dan Brown’s novel.

Dan Brown’s evidence denying he had copied parts of his blockbuster novel, The Da Vinci Code, should be viewed with “deep suspicion”, a High Court judge was told today.

An accusation that millionaire author Dan Brown stole the ideas for his blockbuster The Da Vinci Code was a “travesty”, a High Court judge heard today.

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.

DAN BROWN, one of the highest paid authors in history, said yesterday accusations that he had stolen the ideas for his blockbuster, The Da Vinci Code, were "completely fanciful".

AN author who claims his theories on Christian heresies were copied by Dan Brown in his blockbuster novel The Da Vinci Code admitted in court yesterday that some of his earlier evidence was false.

A New Zealand author wants to sue the makers of the Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie movie Mr and Mrs Smith for allegedly stealing the story idea from his book.

THE second instalment of the battle over The Da Vinci Code novel became a whodunnit first row at the High Court in London yesterday.

THE DA VINCI CODE author Dan Brown sat in Britain’s High Court yesterday accused of taking material for his blockbuster conspiracy thriller from a 1982 book about the Holy Grail.

THE secrets of The Da Vinci Code came in for legal scrutiny yesterday at the High Court in London, where multi-millionaire author Dan Brown confronted two historians who claim their work was plundered for his blockbuster novel.

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.

Dan Brown, one of the highest paid authors in history, sat at the opposite end of a court bench today from two writers who claim he copied their work for his blockbuster novel, The Da Vinci Code.

CONSPIRACY theories involving the Catholic Church and the Holy Grail will be investigated at the High Court in London today.

IT GRIPPED millions who read it, causing uproar and profiteering, and now its creator has all but dismissed its factual core.