Rowling wins the right to privacy trial
Harry Potter author JK Rowling has won the right to carry on a legal fight to protect the privacy of her son.
The court of appeal today reversed an earlier high court judgment against the author, ruling that a case could be made that her son's right to privacy had been infringed.
Rowling brought the case - under her married name Joanne Murray - along with her husband Neil on behalf of their son, David, who is now five.
The court of appeal today reversed an earlier high court judgment against the author, ruling that a case could be made that her son's right to privacy had been infringed.
Rowling brought the case - under her married name Joanne Murray - along with her husband Neil on behalf of their son, David, who is now five.
The court of appeal today ruled a case could be made that photo agency Big Pictures breached Rowling's son's right to privacy and family life under the European Convention on Human Rights, when it took long lens photographs of her son being pushed in a buggy in Edinburgh in November 2004 when he was 18 months old.
The photo appeared in the Sunday Express magazine, which later reached a settlement with Rowling.
Full story from The Guardian.
Hi Graham- not really a direct comment on this particular post but it seemed the most appropriate one... I saw JK's publisher Sarah Odedina at the CBCA conference this past weekend along with Shaun Tan, Neil Gaiman I have written a blog up on it all: www.fificolston.blogspot.com
ReplyDeleteThe exchange between Jack Zipes and Odedina on 'The Harry Potter Phenomenon' was almost gladitorial- in a literary sort of way. Most entertaining.
cheers Fifi