However, it has been reported that the House of Lords didn’t agree that OK!'s business had been hurt by Hello! magazine’s use of the photos.
OK! claimed that because it had paid for the exclusive rights to the celebrity couple’s wedding photos that Hello! had spoilt their exclusive story by publishing photos by a photographer who pretended to be a guest.
Lord Hoffman agreed that OK! was entitled to expect that guests and staff at Catherine Zeta Jones and Michael Douglas’ wedding would not breach its exclusive rights to publish photographs.
Caroline Kean of Wiggin media lawyers said she thought the decision by the Law Lords could signal the end of rival magazines battling over the use of exclusive pictures.
