What Are Legal Issues to Avoid When Writing Your Memoir?
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Welcome to another issue of Write It Right! Today, we're going to dig deep into memoirs. Memoirs pose a lot of potential legal issues, given that memoirs are personal stories that may reveal information that may portray individuals in a negative light. The big ticket items you want to try to avoid or mitigate your risk are in writing something that is libelous or violates an individual’s right of privacy/publicity. A conundrum that many memoirists run into is that they usually want to be as authentic as possible so they include every little juicy detail. However true that information may be, it may still pose a legal risk if the individual you’ve written about is alive (and if the information is true). Thus, the question becomes: what information can I write? It’s very context dependent and your decision becomes a risk analysis. You can’t prevent every lawsuit or make yourself lawsuit-proof. That’s impossible, but you can mitigate your risk. For more information,
What Are Legal Issues to Avoid When Writing Your Memoir?
What Are Legal Issues to Avoid When Writing…
What Are Legal Issues to Avoid When Writing Your Memoir?
Welcome to another issue of Write It Right! Today, we're going to dig deep into memoirs. Memoirs pose a lot of potential legal issues, given that memoirs are personal stories that may reveal information that may portray individuals in a negative light. The big ticket items you want to try to avoid or mitigate your risk are in writing something that is libelous or violates an individual’s right of privacy/publicity. A conundrum that many memoirists run into is that they usually want to be as authentic as possible so they include every little juicy detail. However true that information may be, it may still pose a legal risk if the individual you’ve written about is alive (and if the information is true). Thus, the question becomes: what information can I write? It’s very context dependent and your decision becomes a risk analysis. You can’t prevent every lawsuit or make yourself lawsuit-proof. That’s impossible, but you can mitigate your risk. For more information,