Posted on 09/04/2023 5:55:29 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Hollywood studios have paid individuals for their life stories for at least a century, but life story “rights” are not rights at all, say these US law professors.
What if you overcame a serious illness to go on to win an Olympic medal? Could a writer or filmmaker decide to tell your inspiring story without consulting you? Or do you “own” that story and control how it gets retold?
Michael Oher, the former NFL player portrayed in the 2009 blockbuster The Blind Side, has sued Michael and Anne Leigh Tuohy, the suburban couple who took him into their home as a disadvantaged youth.
In his official complaint, Oher claims that through forgery, trickery or sheer incompetence, the Tuohys enabled 20th Century Fox to acquire the exclusive rights to his life story.
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Not sure but I would certainly lend an ear to Mike Tyson’s stories.
They should.
I follow David Nino Rodriguez. He would have killed Tyson had they met.
Anyways they own what they have.
Why should they? Especially a convicted rapist.
If you write your autobiography and sell it, that would be protected, but I cannot see why anyone else should be proscribed from writing and sharing someone else’s “life story”. Should Obama, Biden, Trump, Clinton, etc. be in control of writing their “life stories”. Are these called biographies anyway?
“Not sure but I would certainly lend an ear to Mike Tyson’s stories.”
Nobody took the bait/bite on your post.
Nino had 37 ko’s in 39 bouts.
Golf clap
Come on man, a guy has to eat.
What am I missing??
“to promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive rights to their respective writings and discoveries”
If one wants rights to a story, write it down first.
Citizen Kane was a thinly disguised bio of WR Hearst.
It could be argued that the movie was about the Tuohy family. Oher was just a character they interacted with.
The Tuohys weren't exactly potted plants in this story.
One can argue that the Touhys were more "famous" in Tennessee during the timeframe depicted in the movie than Michael Oher was.
It was just as much a story of a Christian family taking in a troubled child who grew up to become a famous athlete, and not a story about Oher and his "fame" in the NFL.
-PJ
-PJ
“forgery”
“trickery”
He wins.
“sheer incompetence”
They win.
He is also a practicing Christian; he attributes the turnaround of his alcoholism to his Christian faith.
So there is no chance that Nino would have had a chance to fight for the title, should his injuries not been so career ending.
“Rosebud”
That's what they say, but to me the character seemed to have a lot of similarities to Rockefeller.
Try doing a movie or book exclusively about Dale Earhart Sr. and see what The Wicked Witch of the East says about it via her lawyers.
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