MICHAEL BAIGENT AND RICHARD LEIGH have lost their appeal in the Da Vinci Code copyright case and they now face three million pounds in legal fees.

Novelist Dan Brown wins 'The Da Vinci Code' copyright infringement case in London

By Danica Kirka
ASSOCIATED PRESS

9:44 a.m. March 28, 2007

LONDON – Britain's Court of Appeal rejected a lawsuit Wednesday from two authors who claimed novelist Dan Brown stole their ideas for his blockbuster novel “The Da Vinci Code.”

Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh had sued Brown's publisher, Random House Inc., claiming he had copied from their 1982 nonfiction book, “The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail.”

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Such is the fate of over-reachers.