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Meghan Markle’s Privacy Lawsuit Victory Must Run on UK Paper’s Front Page, Court Rules
The Duchess of Sussex sued the Mail on Sunday and Mail Online for publishing the contents of a letter she wrote to her estranged fatherJ. Clara Chan | March 5, 2021 @ 12:46 PM
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The Mail on Sunday must publish a front-page statement declaring that Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, won a copyright lawsuit she filed against the paper for publishing a letter she wrote to her estranged father, a British judge ruled on Friday.
As part of the statement, Associated Newspapers which publishes the Mail on Sunday and Mail Online must admit that it “infringed her copyright” by publishing portions of her letter. The statement must also run on Mail Online’s homepage for a week and include a hyperlink to the judge’s full ruling.
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Meghan Markle wins privacy claim against UK newspaper
LONDON: Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, has dubbed her victory in holding the Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL) to account as a “comprehensive win for privacy and copyright” because the damage they do “runs deep”. The 39-year-old wife of Britain’s Prince Harry also thanks her husband for his support through the process, after a London High Court ruling in her favour involving articles in February 2019 that published extracts of a “personal and private” letter to her estranged father. The former actress’ legal team had sought a “summary judgment” in the case, which was granted by Justice Mark Warby in the claim for misuse of private information against the publisher of the ‘Mail on Sunday’ and ‘MailOnline’. “The claimant had a reasonable expectation that the contents of the letter would remain private. The ‘Mail’ articles interfered with that reasonable expectation,” the ju
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The Mail on Sunday had argued to the court that there was legitimate public interest in the conduct and standards of behaviour of the royal family. The public interest extended to their personal and family relationships because âthose are integral to the proper functioning of the monarchyâ, they said.
The duchess claimed in her statement that the court had delivered a âcomprehensive win on both privacy and copyrightâ elements of the lawsuit however Justice Warby said the question of copyright should go to a limited trial.
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The trial will determine whether the duchess was the sole author of the letter or whether input from Kensington Palaceâs then communications secretary Jason Knauf might make him a co-author.