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?
“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
“forgery”
“trickery”
He wins.
“sheer incompetence”
They win.
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.
I’ve got a few chapters drafted in my unauthorized autobiography.