translated from Spanish: Meghan Markle won lawsuit against journalistic group for publishing letter he sent to his father

Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, has won a lawsuit against the British journalistic group ANL, owner of the Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, and MailOnLine for infringing her copyright by publishing without her authorization in 2019 a private letter she wrote to her father. In ruling at the last stage of this dispute, Judge Mark Warby of the High Court of London considered it proven that Prince Henry’s wife was the material author of the missive and is therefore the affected party. The magistrate decided summarily, which means that there will be no need to hold a trial, given that the position alleged by the press group is “unrealistic”. Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL) had argued that the text reproduced by its headlines – the most read in the country – in five articles in February 2019 had been written by an assistant to the Duchess and therefore the rights belonged to the monarchy. However, during the process Meghan Markle’s former communications person Jason Knauf has stated that it was the exactriz who wrote the letter of his handwriting and he only made one suggestion, so the “copyright” belongs to her. Today’s ruling completes another issued on February 11, in which the court concluded, also summarily, that the newspapers had violated the Duchess’s privacy by publishing the letter she addressed to her father, Thomas Markle, 76, in August 2018.Meghan Markle sued ANL for misuse of private information , copyright infringement and violation of data protection law. The judge said in February that the publication of the text was “manifestly excessive, and therefore illegal”, as it was “a personal and private letter”, which addressed aspects of the ill-approach relationship between the father and his daughter, who felt “distressed” by her parent’s behavior. Warby today asked ANL to look for any copies of the missive and hand it over to his lawyers for destroyed whenever Markle, 39, who is waiting for his second child, ends up winning the entire judicial process, which could lengthen if the journalistic group resorts to some other aspect. ANL should also provide the court with a relationship of the benefits it obtained with the publication of the letter, which will be discussed at another hearing in October at which costs and compensation are expected to be established.

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