Dan Brown Cleared of Plagiarism

Dan Brown has been found not guilty of plagiarism charges, over his bestselling book, The Da Vinci Code.

Judge Peter Smith of London's High Court ruled that Brown was not guilty of copying ideas from the novel Holy Blood, Holy Grail, written by British historians Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh.  Mr. Brown said the verdict "shows that this claim was utterly without merit".

More than 40 million copies of Da Vinci Code have been sold since its release in 2003.