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Ruling due over Zeta Jones photos Ok! win Zeta Jones photo battle
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The House of Lords is due to make a final ruling in the legal battle over Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones's wedding pictures. Law lords have agreed in favour of Ok! magazine in the confidentiality battle over Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones's wedding photos.
Hello! magazine published shots of the couple's wedding in 2000, despite the rights being owned by rival OK!.Hello! magazine published shots of the couple's wedding in 2000, despite the rights being owned by rival OK!.
Law Lords will decide whether magazines can sue if an exclusive deal is ruined by a competitor. However Lords disagreed with Ok!'s additional claim that by publishing paparazzi shots of the event by Hello! was damaging it's rivals business.
The ruling may clarify what control public figures have over their privacy and image rights. The ruling may spell out clearer rules over privacy and image rights.
The long-standing case began after Ms Zeta Jones and Mr Douglas signed a £1 million deal with OK! magazine.
'Spoiler' pictures
It was agreed the publication would get exclusive coverage of their wedding celebrations at the Plaza Hotel in New York on 18 November 2000. OK! took legal action after Hello! published the "spoiler" pictures.
Three years later a judge awarded damages of £1,033,156 to OK! after it was decided the unofficial publication had caused commercial damage.
But Hello!, which admitted it had used the snatched photos to spoil its rival's exclusive coverage, successfully challenged the court order in May 2005, arguing that "spoilers" were a well-known tactic in the newspaper and magazine industry.
The Hollywood couple are no longer involved in the case
Lord Philips upheld Hello!'s appeal, ruling that its publication of the photographs had not breached OK!'s commercial rights.
The Court of Appeal ordered OK! to pay back damages, costs and interest amounting to nearly £2m.
Intrusion
Richard Millett QC, representing OK!, told a panel of five Law Lords last November how it had been previously established at the High Court that the exclusive was an "extremely valuable" asset to the magazine.
He said Ms Zeta Jones and Mr Douglas - who are no longer involved in the case - were interested in the deal with OK! as a means of preserving confidentiality, rather than to make money.
During the hearing, Hello! argued that any confidentiality ceased after OK! published the photographs.
After the original 2003 hearing, the Hollywood couple were awarded £14,600 after Ms Zeta Jones told the court she felt "devastated" and "violated" when she discovered "unflattering" paparazzi pictures had been taken.