JK Rowling wins privacy ruling over photo of son

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LONDON (AFP) — Harry Potter author JK Rowling welcomed Wednesday a privacy ruling supporting a ban on publication of covertly-taken pictures of her young son.

Appeal judges overturned a High Court ruling last year which rejected the multi-millionaire author's bid to prevent publication of a long-lens picture taken by celebrity photo agency Big Pictures.

In his ruling top judge Sir Anthony Clarke said: "If a child of parents who are not in the public eye could reasonably expect not to have photographs of him published in the media, so too should the child of a famous parent."

Reacting to the judgment Rowling and her husband, Neil Murray, said it would give their children protection from "covert, unauthorised photography" and make an "immediate and material...