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Date Posted: 07:27:09 06/20/02 Thu
Author: joan the english chick
Subject: Re: ::jumps in with an Intentional Tort!!::
In reply to: Kate 's message, "Re: ::jumps in with an Intentional Tort!!::" on 00:53:50 06/20/02 Thu

At the risk of going off on a completely irrelevant tangent, it's my understanding that people who make movies about Real People and real events take pains to get consent first. For example, the people making "A Beautiful Mind" got consent from John Nash. Now if you were to write to Britney Spears and say "may I write a sexually explicit story about you in a lesbian relationship with a vampire slayer," and she said yes, I would probably be fine with that.

And I think the difference between putting fictional characters into a real event, and putting a real person into fictional situations, should be obvious. The former does no harm to anyone. The latter does harm to the subject, and, one could argue, the audience as well. But that's a WHOLE nother debate. So I'll shut up now.

-joan the english chick

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