Dylan Thomas copyright holder ordered to pay costs

Welshman Haydn Price, who holds the copyright of a number of Dylan Thomas photographs, has been ordered by a judge to pay the legal costs of four international agencies he sued for allegedly infringing online his copyright.

Mr Price, a former BBC journalist, of Oak Cottage, Kiltegan, Co Wicklow, had failed in the District Court to successfully sue The EW Scripps Company Inc, Cincinnati, Ohio; Tribune Media Services Inc, Illinois; PG Publishing Co Inc, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and Fairfax New Zealand Limited in Wellington and Auckland.

He failed to overturn the decision of the District Court and Judge Jacqueline Linnane, hearing the unsuccessful appeals in the Circuit Civil Court, directed that Mr Price separately pay the legal costs of all four defendants for the hearings in upper and lower courts.