Edward Rocknroll was granted an interim-injunction pending trial on 8 January 2013, which prevented the Sun from publishing a potentially embarrassing photograph of him in its paper ([2013] EWHC 24 (Ch)). Following the hearing, Mr Rocknroll and his wife, Kate Winslet made the following statement: “We have stopped the Sun from publishing semi-naked photos of Ned taken by a friend at a private 21st birthday party a few years ago. The photos are innocent but embarrassing and there is no reason to splash them across a newspaper. We recognise that in the internet age privacy is harder and harder to maintain. But we will continue to do what we can, particularly to protect Kate’s children from the results of media intrusion. We refuse to accept that her career means our family can’t live a relatively normal life”. Continue reading
The International Forum for Responsible Media Blog
Month: January 2013 (Page 3 of 6)
Today is the third birthday of the Inforrm blog – which began operation on 22 January 2010. Our first post – “Welcome to Inforrm” – attracted 2 visitors in January 2010 and the site had a total of 7 page views that month. That was the only post in January. The posting rate and visitor numbers have increased dramatically since then. In our first three years we have had a total of 1,584 posts and nearly 1.4 million page views. We have an established readership all round the world. Continue reading
In March 2013 Carina Trimingham’s appeal in her claim against Associated Newspapers for harassment, misuse of private information and breach of copyright will be heard by the Court of Appeal. The High Court case and permission to appeal has already been covered by this blog, however this case also raises interesting points in light of the Leveson Report. Continue reading
Associated Press, Getty Images, Reuters, British Pathé, Press Association, and the Federation of Commercial and Audiovisual Libraries have delivered a Letter Before Claim to Vince Cable, in opposition to the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill. They object to Clauses 66, 67 and 68, “which will allow the government to make changes to copyright exceptions, reduce the length of term of copyright, and allow the licensing of Orphan Works“, the British Journal of Photography reports. More at Out-Law.com here. Continue reading
Brian Cowen served as Taoiseach (Prime Minister of Ireland) from 2008 to 2011. He did not stand for re-election as a TD (MP) in 2011.
I know what you did last Summer, Mr Cowen, and in fact we all know what you did last Summer, Mr Cowen, because the the Irish Mail on Sunday reported on your enrollment in the Executive Education Programme at Stanford University in California. Continue reading
The Supreme Court of the Philippines has begun hearing 15 petitions filed by various groups and individuals including journalists and free press advocates. against the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012. The arguments for the petitioners were heard on Tuesday 5 January 2013 and the arguments of the Solicitor-General opposing the petitions will be heard on Tuesday 22 January 2103. Continue reading
Section 5 of the Public Order Act 1986, which outlaws the use of “threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour” will be amended to remove the word ‘insulting’. The amendment is the result of a successful, high-profile campaign which asked “Do we really need the police and the courts to deal with insults?” Continue reading
In the northwest of Victoria sits the orange-picking town of Mildura on the Murray River. To get there from Melbourne usually involves a 6-hour drive or a small flight on a plane with a flip-top lid. But it was there in Mildura where Justice Stephen Kaye and a jury of six heard a defamation trial that ran for 22 days and traversed the many great and wondrous issues that defamation trials can throw up. Judgment was given on 9 November 2012 ([2012] VSC 535). Continue reading
Since Lord Justice Leveson published his recommendations seven weeks ago, there has been a flurry of activity. Three draft bills have been published – by Labour, the Lib Dem peer Lord Lester, and Hacked Off – all of which aim to put the Report into practice. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport have also produced a piece of draft legislation, that Hacked Off has now published. This Government Bill was intended to demonstrate the ferocious complexity of a bill to enact Leveson. In fact, like the three other draft bills, it does the opposite: it shows that legislation to make a reality of media reform is neither complicated nor particularly prone to the risk of endless amendments. Meanwhile, the Conservative side of the Coalition have been working on the idea of a Royal Charter to give effect to the same reforms. Continue reading
Mr Justice Briggs
On 17 January 2013, Mr Justice Briggs in the Chancery Division handed down judgment in Rocknroll v NGN ([2013] EWHC 24 (Ch)) explaining his decision to grant an interim injunction to restrain the Sun from publishing photographs of the claimant which had appeared on a Facebook page. The injunction was granted to restrain the misuse of private information and to prevent the infringement of the copyright in the photographs. Continue reading
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