by Kelley Way | Nov 6, 2023 | Authors and Writing, Copyrights, Intellectual Property
Ongoing royalty revenues are the dream of every author, musician, and movie director. And those royalty revenues are even sweeter if you don’t have to put any effort into marketing the work yourself. But if this dream is achieved, it also creates a problem for the...
by Kelley Way | Feb 3, 2020 | Authors and Writing, Copyrights, Intellectual Property
Defamation, Right of Privacy and Right of Publicity in Writing I’ve recently been asked, “Can I write about a real person in my book?” There are several ways this question pops up: Could you have your fictional character meet a celebrity? Can you use...