EPUK: Photographer wins copyright infringement case against Mirror Group Newspapers
October 26th, 2009Posted by Judith Townend in Editors' pick, Legal, Newspapers, Photography
Photography site EPUK publishes a report by law firm Swan Turton on a celebrity photographer’s copyright victory over Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN).
“In a judgment issued on October 16 which has potentially important ramifications for the photography industry, the High Court held that Daily Mirror publisher MGN Ltd had infringed copyright in photographs included in back copies of newspapers it was making available online to paid subscribers.”
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