Canadian couple win damages from Italian ruling party

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Canadian couple win damages from Italian ruling party

14 August 2023

By George Wright
BBC News

Italy's far-right ruling party has been ordered to pay damages to a same-sex couple for using a photo of them with their newborn son without their consent in an anti-surrogacy campaign.

BJ Barone and Frankie Nelson welcomed their son Milo with the help of a surrogate mother in 2014.

A photo taken of that moment went viral, but it was then used by Brothers of Italy in 2016.

The party has been ordered to pay the couple €10,000 (£8,600) each.

Brothers of Italy - Fratelli d'Italia in Italian - were ordered to pay for the "offensive use of their image" after Italian LGBT law firm Gay Lex took on the case. The party is appealing the decision.

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