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European Court Of Human Rights Says Newspapers Don't Need To Pre-Inform Celebrities Of Coverage
from the good-for-them dept
Earlier this year, we wrote about the campaign by Max Mosley to require newspapers to inform celebrities before articles were written about them. This seemed like a pretty big attack on free speech and, thankfully, Europe's Court of Human Rights has now denied Mosley's campaign, saying that it is not a violation of an individual's privacy rights to be written about in the news. This is a victory for supporters of free speech. The court clearly noted that deciding otherwise would have created a true chilling effect on free speech.
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Not terribly surprised at this...
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They should still inform them anyway...
"Max? Yeah, I've got an unflattering article I'm going to run. Just thought you should know. It should be live any minute now... ah, there it is. Smooches!"
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Ya think?
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a) a vendetta against openness; or
b) stupid people are diiots.
I can't tell which.
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"the News of the World, a British tabloid newspaper, released video footage of Mosley engaged in sado-masochistic sexual acts with five sex workers in a scenario that the paper said involved Nazi role-playing, a situation made more controversial by his father's association with the Nazis"
(His father, Oswald Mosley, created and led the British Union of Fascists in the 1930's)
Source: Wikipedia, take with your daily recommended allowance of salt.
So... yeah
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Perhaps a full page "ad" in a national newspaper/website would inform them that you had a story you wanted to run ...
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Max Mosley wants more suppression. The rest of us want more news.
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