Celebrity wins nude photo ruling
Supreme Court ruling on publishing photos of topless celebrity awards damages but does not label act as criminal Gossip magazine Se og Hør has been ordered by the Supreme Court to pay television and radio host Andrea Elisabeth Rudolph 75,000...
Gossip magazine Se og Hør has been ordered by the Supreme Court to pay television and radio host Andrea Elisabeth Rudolph 75,000 kroner for publishing photos of her bare-breasted on a public beach.
The pictures, printed in 2006, show a pregnant Rudolph sunbathing with her boyfriend.
In the ruling, the presiding judge stated that although the photos were taken in public, the publication amounted to an unlawful invasion of Rudolph’s privacy.
The Danish Actors Association applauded the ruling.
‘This is a clear-cut victory and means that celebrities have the right to a private life in the public domain,’ Maj Hagestrøm, the association’s chief legal counsel, told public broadcaster DR.
Despite ordering Se og Hør to pay a fine, the Supreme Court did not find that its publication of the pictures was illegal or that its editor-in-chief at the time of publication, Henrik Qvortrup, had committed any crime in allowing them to be published.