Zeta-Jones and Douglas lose Hello! picture battle

The happy couple fail in their legal wrangle with Hello! over wedding photos

LONDON, England (Reuters) -- A London court has overturned a ban on celebrity magazine Hello! publishing unauthorised wedding pictures of Hollywood stars Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones.

The London Appeal Court lifted the ban on Thursday imposed by the High Court earlier this week, but gave no reasons for its decision.

Douglas, 56, and 31-year-old Zeta Jones sold the exclusive rights to pictures of their November 18 wedding to rival magazine OK! in a one million pounds ($1.41 million) deal.

But rival Hello! hit the streets on Monday carrying its own "exclusive" shots of the wedding and distributed 16,000 copies before the High Court ban blocked further sales of its 760,000 copies.

Douglas, Zeta Jones and OK! argued in the Appeal Court that Hello! should not be allowed to show unauthorised photos of the wedding, which it bought from a picture agency.

But fans will now be able to feast their eyes on the rival picture spreads on Friday when Hello! and OK! will hit newstands simultaneously.

Douglas, whose credits include steamy box office hits like "Fatal Attraction" and "Basic Instinct," and Zeta Jones, raven-haired star of action hits "Entrapment" and "Mask of Zorro," tied the knot in New York on Saturday.

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