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On 20 September 20 2015, the District Court of Amsterdam denied attempts by two plaintiffs to prevent the broadcasting of secretly recorded audiovisual materials. The first plaintiff, Volkert van der Graaf, had been conditionally released from prison, having been sentenced to 18 years after he murdered the Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn in 2002. Graaf had been released six years early from prison on, amongst others, the condition that he would refrain from contact with the media. In the secretly recorded footage at issue in this case, Graaf was recorded stating that he himself contacted a photographer...

On 5 October 2015, the Hague District Court ruled in Stichting BREIN v Google that Google has to provide the contact details of a user that illegally traded in e-books on Google Play. According to the Dutch court, the protection of intellectual property rights of the publishers outweighs the user’s right to freedom of speech and Google’s right to conduct a business. The user offered e-books far below the regular price under the name of Flamenca Hollanda on Google Play Books. On behalf of the Dutch publishers, Stichting BREIN - an anti-piracy foundation - requested Google to take down the illegal...

On 21 October 2012, the Mail Online (owned by Associated Newspapers Ltd) published an online article which bore the headline "A family day out". It showed photographs, taken by an unnamed photographer, of musician Paul Weller and some of his children, out shopping in the street, and relaxing at a café on the edge of the street in California, United States. On 16 April 2014, there was a finding at first instance of liability for misuse of private information. In that judgment, Dingemans J awarded Paul Weller’s three children a total of GBP 10,000 damages in respect of seven photographs published....

The Grand Chamber's judgment in Couderc and Hachette Filipacchi Associés v. France elaborates on the appropriate standards for privacy and media coverage on issues related to the private life of public persons (see also IRIS 2014-3/1). In 2005, the French magazine Paris Match was ordered to pay EUR 50,000 in damages and to publish a statement detailing the judgment of the Versailles Court of Appeal finding a breach of privacy, because of an article which caused damage to Albert II of Monaco. The impugned article in Paris Match contained an interview with the former lover of Albert Grimaldi, Ms...

In a judgment on preliminary relief proceedings on 12 August 2015, the District Court of Amsterdam declared the broadcast of images of the former mayor of Maastricht unlawful. The images were recorded by the Dutch broadcaster Powned, by means of a hidden camera. The Court ordered Powned to ensure that the unlawful images can no longer be found through search engines on the Internet. In December 2013, the mayor of Maastricht, who is married, was discredited when a Dutch broadcaster published a photo of him kissing a 24-year-old man in a hotel lobby. In the same period, a photo of the mayor was found...