Formula 1 Max Mosley case: agreement reached between Google and former … – News Free

Berlin, May 16, 2015 – Google and Max Mosley , former President of the FIA , the International Automobile Federation, and former patron, at the time, the Formula 1 , whose private life had come under the media spotlight for one sex scandal, reached at last confidentiality agreement on the dispute raised by Mosley against the global giant of the web to the spread of his images on the web , images certainly not beautiful to see but taken to its knowledge.

Terms of the agreement were not disclosed but Mosley’s lawyer in Germany, Tanja Irion , said that the matter has been resolved , with the satisfaction of both parties. Klaas Flechsi , a Google spokesman in Germany, confirmed the conclusion of the confidentiality agreement, thus solving the legal proceedings in Germany, UK and France, but did not provide further details of the technical or financial ‘agreement.

“The agreement is confidential, I’m happy and I will not put at risk”

Mosley said, quoted by his lawyer.

The long legal dispute started by the spread of compromising pictures and video taken during a party in London that saw the involvement of Max Mosley as he had with several women in Nazi uniforms and those who wore uniforms that reflected the internees in the camps. It was March 30, 2008 when the former boss of Formula 1 was involved in a sensational sex scandal sparked by the British newspaper News of the World , who first published a few frames from a video of 5 hours.

Back in January, the Court of Hamburg had ruled that Google had to prevent the images Max Mosley were visible on the German version of the popular engine Search for “ seriously infringe the privacy of the actor “. A similar decision was taken two months before even by a court in France.

This year, Max Mosley, former president of the FIA, had taken legal action against Google for the same reasons, also in England in order to get those images were no longer visible.

Mosley’s lawyers have hailed the verdict as a “milestone for the protection of the right to privacy on the Internet, a verdict which enshrined” legal certainty in a clear case of violation of privacy “.

The Court of Hamburg should have ruled on the appeal next Tuesday by Google, but the case is finally closed with the confidentiality agreement signed with satisfaction by both parties and which finally puts an end to a long legal dispute.