Life Rights and Wrongs
Am I allowed to write a movie (or book or article) about you without your permission?
Unequivocally and without hesitation the answer is: maybe.
At the time of this writing, a former television reality show host and NY real estate developer has held the office of President of the United States for nearly a year. There are oodles of books written about Donald Trump. He may have — or he may not have — at one point or another signed a life rights contract awarding a particular biographer permission to write his life story.
Rest assured, however, that the vast majority (if not all) books about Trump were written without his authorization.
Even since the election, the United States is still (mostly) a free nation whose liberty is underscored first and foremost by this annoying, pesky item called The Constitution and, particularly, its First Amendment.
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