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Understanding Entertainment Law with Tisha Morris

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Do You Want to Make Your People Not Identifiable?

When you write real people in a fictional setting, does that have repercussions in the legal sense? That's right. The criteria that you want to look for is identifiable. Is someone identifiable? And so even though you say not, even if you say it's fictionalized, you can see this even in TV of CSI stories ripped from the headlines. But at the same time, you have to work, watch for some right of privacy issues.

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