Celebrity and Royal Privacy The Media and the Law

"This new work explores the legal landscape surrounding celebrity, privacy and the media. It examines how English law has, and has not, balanced celebrities' legal expectations of informational and seclusional privacy against the press and the media's rights to inform and publish. It considers the raft of important recent cases that has significantly changed the law in this area. [The author explores] the position of the Monarch and members of the Royal family in relation to privacy laws [and analyses] how the requirements of proportionality should be understood in various practical situations where disputes over privacy arise. [The author also examines] all the key decisions of recent years, from Mosley and Van Hannover to Google Spain and the Ryan Giggs case. [The author defines] the key concepts of 'celebrity' and 'privacy' [and explains] breach of confidence and the different classes of protected information. [This book also covers] misuse of private information [and analyses] parliamentary privilege in the age of social media. [The author explains] the regimes for protecting the anonymity of children of celebrities, and the European case law governing public pictures of celebrities. [The author shows] how celebrities can use copyright as a privacy remedy [and covers] the Protection from Harassment Act 1997, and the criminal offences under it. [Finally, the author explains] how data protection can be used as a privacy remedy [and looks] at the important case law emerging under the Defamation Act 2013."--