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Newspaper prevented from selling back copy editions online due to one photographer’s copyright – MGN v Grisbrook, Court of Appeal

16 December 2010 | Mark Weston

Alan Grisbrook, a freelance photographer, supplied photographs to Mirror Group Newspapers for many years. There was no written contract between them. There was therefore an implied licence for the newspaper...

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Story in online archives should be amended or removed when ‘responsible journalism’ defence ceases to apply – Flood v Times Newspapers, Court of Appeal

23 July 2010 | Mark Weston

This case involved a defamatory report containing allegations about Flood, a policeman. At the time of the story being published, The Times Newspapers argued that it had a defence called ‘Reynolds privilege’...

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No one liable if search engine’s summary of article in search result distorts meaning and makes it defamatory – Budu v BBC, High Court

8 April 2010 | Mark Weston

Neither a publisher of an article nor the search engine service provider should be liable if selected words taken from the publisher’s article by the search engine result changed the meaning and made...

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