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| re: Question for Playwrights | |
| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 11:17 am EST 02/08/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Question for Playwrights - Johno60 10:39 am EST 02/08/18 | |
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| How close are you to production and/or publication? If you aren't at the point where your play is going to be staged, then you probably don't need to worry about these issues just yet. While playwrights on this site could give you advice, any smart one would tell you to talk to a lawyer... and if you're at the point where you're signing contracts for production, you should already have either a lawyer or an agent who can help you with these issues. | |
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| re: Question for Playwrights | |
| Posted by: Johno60 11:27 am EST 02/08/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Question for Playwrights - Singapore/Fling 11:17 am EST 02/08/18 | |
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| You’re right. I found this woman’s email on line and I was tempted to write her but I was advised to not write her. |
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| re: Question for Playwrights | |
| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 11:52 am EST 02/08/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Question for Playwrights - Johno60 11:27 am EST 02/08/18 | |
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| From a legal standpoint, absolutely do not write her. My very basic understanding of how these things work is that it would be incumbent upon her to be aware of the play, recognize herself in it, be able to prove that the person in the play could only be her, that other people watching the play would come to the same conclusion, and that you could not have drawn the life details that you drew from publicly available sources. If you tell her in advance that it's her, you've made her case for her. Now, from a moral or ethical standpoint, there's a whole different conversation to be had about how writers use other people's lives in their work and whether writers should include those people in their process and perhaps get their permission... but that's wholly separate from your original question. |
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