Singer Paul Weller has won $A10,720 in damages after a newspaper published pictures of his children. Source: AAP
BRITISH singer Paul Weller has won $US10,000 ($A10,720) privacy damages for three of his children whose faces were "plastered" over a newspaper website.
Weller, 55, sued Associated Newspapers for misuse of private information on behalf of daughter Dylan, who was 16 when the seven unpixelated pictures appeared on MailOnline in October 2012, and twin sons John Paul and Bowie, who were 10 months old.
The one-time frontman of The Jam and the Style Council was not at London's High Court to hear the ruling.
The pictures were published after a paparazzo followed Weller and the children on a shopping trip through the streets of Santa Monica, California, taking photos without their consent despite being asked to stop.
Associated Newspapers argued that they were entirely innocuous and inoffensive images taken in public places and that the Wellers had previously chosen to open up their private family life to public gaze to a significant degree.
Ruling that there was a misuse of private information and a breach of the Data Protection Act, the judge awarded STG5000 to Dylan and STG2500 each to John Paul and Bowie.
He said the Wellers, whose lawyers had asked for at least STG15,000 for each child, would have refused to give consent for the photos showing the faces of the children if asked and this was their consistent approach to dealings with the media.
"We are deeply disappointed by this judgment," a spokesman for MailOnline said.
"At the outset, when concerns were first raised, we made it clear to Mr and Mrs Weller that MailOnline would not re-publish these photos.
"The photographs showed nothing more than Paul Weller and three of his children out and about in public places. There was no claim and no finding that we had followed, harassed or targeted Mr Weller or his children and no request had ever been made to pixelate the children's faces."
The publication says it intends to appeal the decision.
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