Perspective
Oct. 8, 2010
When Life Becomes Scripted
It's not always necessary to acquire underlying rights when making a movie based on someone's life story. By Jill Smith of Barkin Smith.
It is common knowledge that many films are based on a real person's life story. However, it comes as a surprise to many to find out that it is not always necessary to acquire any underlying rights in order to produce a movie based on someone's life story.
As a general concept, life story rights are acquired in order to avoid violating the rights of someone else. In depicting real people in a film, there are three ar...
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