text: do you think that dan brown has plagiarized the da vinci code? in a swedish newspaper i read that michael baigent and richard leigh had suited brown for using their work in the dvc. they both claim that brown was inspired by their work and he never gave to them the credit. do you think that´s is true? not true! he gives them due credit in his book, the da vinci code. he even mentions the name of their book! how much more publicly can he say that he was inspired by it!?