Ruling in Da Vinci Code Copyright Case
April 7th, 2006
The ruling has been handed down in the U.K. by London’s High Court. As expected, the judge ruled that you can’t copyright an idea and the author’s claim failed the test of copyright infringement, even though Brown had copied some language from the earlier book.
Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, the authors of the 1982 book The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail are going to need to dig deep.
The ruling clears the way for the Da Vinci Code movie’s release in May. Mr Baigent and Mr Leigh must pay 85% of Random House’s costs of almost £1.3m.
Ouch.
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