[stylist] autobiography and gtetting sued

[Brad Dunsé]

I don't think it is an issue unless they are 
painted in a slanderous manner. You cant' 
copyright a name or title unless it is 
trademarked. And names can't be trademarked 
unless they have a particular design/logo/etc. 
For instance the now disbanded group Alabama has 
a trademark on their name because it is designed 
in a certain way, but they cant' copyright the 
name itself. I bet there's a ton of Tom Petty's 
out there :) Now if you said, Tom Petty, the 
famous rocker, is a lying, cheating, dirty rotten 
so and so, and he did this and that. It could be 
that if your book makes it up the charts, Tom 
might want a piece of it for slander against his character  :).

Brad

On 3/4/2012  02:33 PM The Crowd said...
>Anyone have knowledge about the legality of 
>using a person's name in a biogrpahy or autobiography?
>
>Thanks,
>Atty
>
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>That was very touching. Open heart surgery with
>the written word as the scalpel. Any poetic
>structure aside, you made me feel a strong
>portion of what you felt. I say "poertion"
>because there's no way I could feel what you felt
>in the first place. I liked the honesty of the
>"Don't tell me" parts. It says "I know I know,
>but let me have my greif, I need it right now".
>
>Brad
>
>On 3/3/2012  09:43 PM Barbara Hammel said...
>>11 years ago next month we were supposed to be 
>>greeting our first-born child.  Here is the 
>>poem I wrote and read at his memorial service.
>>
>>Iâ?Tm still trying to manufacture something in my brain.
>>
>>Barbara
>>
>>Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. -- Carl Sandburg
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