Cases

Douglas v Hello! Ltd (No 8) (CA)

Issue

(1) Whether privacy rights survive commercial sale. (2) Whether a privacy right can be exploited by its subject as a commercial confidence. (3) Whether such rights are transferred on sale of exclusive publication rights to a commercial publisher. (4) The effect on the rights of the official pictures being placed in the public domain. (5) The test of intention for economic torts. (6) Whether Hello! were responsible for republication of the unauthorised images, without OK!'s consent. (7) Whether the Douglases should have been awarded damages on a notional licence fee basis.

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