Authors take Da Vinci Code case to Court of Appeal

KEY POINTS:

Two authors who lost an action in the British High Court claiming that Dan Brown stole their ideas for his blockbuster novel The Da Vinci Code have taken their case to the Court of Appeal.

New Zealander Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh claim that Brown borrowed the central theme of their book The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail for his multimillion-selling thriller.

- NZPA