Spiess-Hegglin and Ringier in court in Zug for handing over profits
Published: Wednesday, Oct 30th 2024, 05:40
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Former Zug cantonal councillor Yolanda Spiess-Hegglin and the media company Ringier are set for another round of negotiations today, Wednesday, at the cantonal court in Zug. The case concerns the publication of profits made by the Ringier newspaper "Blick" with four articles that violated personal rights.
The cantonal court in Zug is the court of first instance for civil matters. In a landmark ruling in 2022, it found that the unlawful articles had had a positive impact on the sales of "Blick" and that Ringier had to hand over the profit it had made.
It is up to Spiess-Hegglin to quantify its claim to the profit. The cantonal court obliged Ringier to disclose all information for determining and estimating the profit made. It cited, for example, the number of individual sales of certain "Blick" numbers or the number of devices from which online articles were accessed on certain days.
Ringier accepted the ruling and provided Spiess-Hegglin with information. The court will now decide how to calculate the profit distribution, Spiess-Hegglin explained in her blog on Monday. A team of experts had succeeded in extrapolating the revenue per individual article based on the registered clicks.
The articles concerned events at the Landammann celebration in 2014. After the official celebration, there was sexual contact between the then cantonal councillor Spiess-Hegglin (then a member of the Greens) and a fellow SVP cantonal councillor.
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