UK date set for Da Vinci Code plagiarism trial

LONDON (Reuters) - Two historians are suing the publishers of Dan Brown's best-selling religious thriller "The Da Vinci Code" in a case which lawyers said on Thursday was due to start early next year. Richard Leigh and Michael Baigent are suing Random House for lifting "the whole architecture" of the research that went into their 1982 non-fiction book "The Holy Blood, and the Holy Grail." Lawyers on both sides of the case met on Thursday to thrash out technical details, and said a trial date had been set for February 27. [More]