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Thursday, March 16, 2006
WordPerfect stirs a bit of courtroom drama
The author of the bestseller, "Da Vinci Code" is tangled up in a plagarism lawsuit in London. He is being sued for copyright infringement by the authors of "The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail," which is not a best seller.
Debra J. Saunders, writing for the San Francisco Chronicle ('Da Vinci Code' trial intrigue (web site may cause pop-up ads)) notes:
The stylized-court traditions accentuate the gulf between American bestseller and British sensibilities. The judge (a.k.a. "your lordship") and the barristers wear white wigs, capes and neckwear so dated that I had to ask four barristers before one could tell me what they're called. ("Bands.") Tuesday, the claimants' barrister, (a.k.a. the "queen's counsel" or the lawyer for the plaintiffs) Jonathan Rayner James had to back off from a line of questioning because, as his lordship pointed out, the barrister didn't understand what (the word-processing software) WordPerfect was. In Rayner James' most heated moment, he confronted the bestselling author without reserve, saying, "Oh, come, Mr. Brown." (Emphasis added.)
I think it bears noting that, other than the wigs, clothes, and odd lawyer labels, their trials sound a lot like ours.
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That's interesting, I wonder what the commotion was with regards to WordPerfect, though. What did WP have to do with his questions? Weird - too bad the article itself doesn't add more details.
Posted by: Andrew at March 30, 2006 12:30 AM
