Judge Rules in Favor of Brown in Copyright Infringment Suit In a 26-page decision that grants summary judgment and keeps the case from moving to a jury trial, Judge George B. Daniels has ruled that Dan Brown’s THE DA VINCI CODE does not infringe Lewis Perdue’s copyrights in his novels DAUGHTER OF GOD and THE DA VINCI LEGACY, and declared the books have “no substantial similarity.” In summarizing Perdue’s specific claims of similarity, Judge Daniels says that “all of these similarities, however, are unprotectible ideas, historical facts, and general themes that do not represent any original elements of Perdue’s work.” […]