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At Least Pay For The Privilege
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Here's a knotty free speech problem: If someone's still alive, do you have the right to make a movie or book or whatever portraying them as bad and doing things they really didn't do? Like, in a biopic? That's the issue in actress Olivia De Havilland's battle with FX over how she was depicted in "Feud: Bette and Joan," a dramatization of the feud between Bette Davis and Joan Crawford in which De Havilland was depicted as calling her sister Joan Fontaine a "bitch" and gossiping about Frank Sinatra, things she says she never did. She also says they never got her permission. So it's artistic license versus your right not to have someone make a movie with you as a character without your permission. (Los Angeles Times)
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