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Perspective

Apr. 22, 2009

In the U.S. and Abroad, Fame Always Comes at a Price

Celebrities' fight for privacy always involves complicated legal issues, Andrew Nicol, Andrew Sharland and Gavin Millar explain in their book "Media Law and Human Rights."

By Andrew Nicol, Andrew Sharland and Gavin Millar

The positive obligation implied by Article 8 has had a significant impact on the development of media law in the UK. The causes of action which existed before the HRA have not been taken away. They could not. Section 11 of the Act makes clear that the rights it introduced were intended to be supplementary to any existing claims. However, under the stimulus of Article 8 the courts have developed the idea that redress ma...

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