Friday 14 September 2012

Topless Kate pictures: Duke and duchess sue French magazine Closer

So it seems that publishing photographs of Prince Harry naked in a private hotel room is fine, but topless photos of Kate Middleton in France is not...

More details of the (rather rare) threat from the Royal Family to sue the French magazine "Closer" for the publication of topless photos of Middleton here — personally, I am not sure that publication of either set of photographs, whether the subjects are "visible from the street" or not, are in the public interest, such that the right to privacy should be overridden.
The Sun - the only British newspaper to publish recent pictures of Prince Harry naked - said it had no intention of publishing the images.
"The circumstances are very different to those relating to the photos of Prince Harry in Las Vegas. As we said at the time, he was at a party in a hotel suite with a large group of strangers and one of those present released a photograph into the public domain," said the Sun's editor Dominic Mohan.
How far does one need to hide from camera lenses to gain a right to privacy? Should one need to hide at all?

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