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Meghan Marklehas received a public apology after a protracted court battle with the publishers of theMail on Sunday.
“The Duchess of Sussex wins her legal case for copyright infringement against Associated Newspapers for articles published inThe Mail on Sundayand posted on Mail Online,” Sunday’s front page notice reads.
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He also ordered that the apology appear on the homepage of MailOnline “for a period of one week” and include a hyperlink to the official judgment and summary under the wording, “The full judgment and the Court’s summary of it can be found here.”
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In addition to thepublic apologyprinted on the front page of theMail on Sundayand the homepage of theMail Online, the Duchess can also expect to receive substantial financial damages from the newspaper group.In March, it was ruled that the publisher of theDaily MailandMail on Sundayshouldpay 90% of Meghan’s estimated $1.88 million legal expensesfor pursuing the 18-month-long case.
In a statement on December 2, Meghan said, “This is a victory not just for me, but for anyone who has ever felt scared to stand up for what’s right.”
She noted, “While this win is precedent setting, what matters most is that we are now collectively brave enough to reshape a tabloid industry that conditions people to be cruel, and profits from the lies and pain that they create.”
Meghan continued, “From day one, I have treated this lawsuit as an important measure of right versus wrong. The defendant has treated it as a game with no rules. The longer they dragged it out, the more they could twist facts and manipulate the public (even during the appeal itself), making a straightforward case extraordinarily convoluted in order to generate more headlines and sell more newspapers — a model that rewards chaos above truth. In the nearly three years since this began, I have been patient in the face of deception, intimidation, and calculated attacks.”
source: people.com
