Wednesday, December 3, 2014

legal - Legalities about fictionalizing current events?


What are the legalities of taking something currently in the news and writing a story/novel/movie (but not a documentary/biography) about it? Take Snowden, for example. Someone went and made a movie (I haven't seen it - apparently it's awful).


Do you need permission from the people involved or mentioned to write about them? Could you get into trouble for libel even if you make it very clear that you're writing fiction and insisting that any resemblance... is a coincidence?




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