Re: basing original story on an incident found in newspaper

Posted by M. Arthur Auslander on January 10, 2000 at 04:32:06:

In Reply to: basing original story on an incident found in newspaper posted by Garrett Schiff on January 07, 2000 at 14:27:03:

: Is it legal for me to base a story on an actual incident that I read about in a newspaper without obtaining the subject of the story's life rights? While my story would include a character that resembles the actual character it would in no way be based on him or his life.
Copyright protects the mode of expression, not the fact or the idea.
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