A recent case will have a bearing on the extent to which a party can include photographs of famous people in advertisements or on a website or otherwise have a website or otherwise have a website connected with a famous person. The case was Irvine-V-Talksport Ltd (High Court 13 March 2002).
Eddie Irvine, the Formula One racing driver, recently brought an action in the UK against a radio station, Talksport. Talksport had used in a promotional brochure a photograph of Eddie Irvine which had been digitally manipulated so that it showed him holding a radio on which the words "Talk Radio" (which was the name of the Defendants radio station at the time) had been attached rather than a mobile phone.
