Entertainment & Sports
Oct. 2, 2010
Facebook Movie Skirts Legal Lines
Hitting big screens today, "The Social Network" combines the portrayal of real-life people with fictionalized events but without securing the life rights. Could Facebook sue over the film?
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Hitting big screens today, the motion picture "The Social Network" combines the portrayal of real-life people with fictionalized events but without the filmmakers securing the life rights to the biopic's central characters.
In other words, the perfect breeding grounds for a lawsuit.
The film tells the story of Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg - played in...
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