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Q&A Can someone publish a story that happened to you?

Can someone take a story that happened to you, without your knowledge, and publish it? Using your name and specifics, and take the copyright for it? A person, whose mother lived in our small town,...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Juli Ridgway‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T11:45:48Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/44777
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision by user avatar Juli Ridgway‭ · 2019-12-08T11:45:48Z (almost 5 years ago)
Can someone take a story that happened to you, without your knowledge, and publish it? Using your name and specifics, and take the copyright for it?

A person, whose mother lived in our small town, heard a story about our father. This person wrote a children's book based on the story, using his name and other specifics to the story, and had it published with out our knowledge. She copyrighted the work. Is that legal? Do we have any rights to the story since it was about our father?

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2019-04-25T01:49:56Z (over 5 years ago)
Original score: 23