But the Court of Appeal has stated that, even in light of the new evidence, Warby had been correct in granting the summary judgment, and therefore that the Mail on Sunday was liable for copyright infringement and breach of privacy.Ĭopyright protects things such as writings – including, as in this case, a letter. This is because ANL’s defence had no real prospect of success.ĪNL was given permission to appeal and brought fresh evidence to support its argument that the case should go to trial.
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High Court judge Mr Justice Warby issued a summary judgment in favour of the duchess in February 2021 which upheld her claim of breach of privacy and copyright infringement.Ī summary judgment means that in this case the judge ruled there was no need to go to trial in order to reach a determination. The duchess sued for copyright infringement and breach of privacy, arguing that the letter to her father had been “private and personal”. Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL) the publisher of the Daily Mail, the Mail on Sunday and MailOnline, has lost an appeal in its three-year legal battle against Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, over the Mail on Sunday’s publication of extracts from a letter written by the duchess to her father, Thomas Markle, in August 2018.
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