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The Duchess of Sussex said the Court of Appeal ruling was a victory of “right versus wrong” and issues a call to “reshape a tabloid industry.”Meghan Markle, who is known as the Duchess of Sussex, was victorious in the latest stage of a privacy lawsuit she filed against a British newspaper called Associated Newspapers, according to the Associated Press. Three senior judges ruled that the publisher violated her privacy by duplicating parts of a letter she wrote to her father Thomas Markle.
Markle said the Court of Appeal ruling was a win of “right versus wrong” and advocates to “reshape a tabloid industry” that has been a source of harm to celebrities and British royals, according to the Associated Press.
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“Following a hearing on 19-20 January 2021, and a further hearing on 5 May 2021, the Court has given judgment for the Duchess of Sussex on her claim for copyright infringement,” a front-page apology from the U.K. tabloid read. “The Court found that Associated Newspapers infringed her copyright by publishing extracts of her handwritten letter to her father in the Mail on Sunday and on Mail Online. Financial remedies have been agreed.”
In 2019, she sued Associated Newspapers, which is the publisher of The Mail and MailOnline, for invasion of privacy and copyright infringement because The Mail published parts of her letter to her estranged father after she married Prince Harry in 2018.
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“This is a victory not just for me, but for anyone who has ever felt scared to stand up for what’s right,” Markle said in a statement. “These harmful practices don’t happen once in a blue moon—they are a daily fail that divide us, and we all deserve better.”