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How can someone sell rights to their life story or experiences? (feddit.org)
submitted 1 month ago by PhilLab@feddit.org to c/explainlikeimfive@lemmy.world
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I understand that someone might be a valuable firsthand source to get interesting details and core pieces of a real story right. But how can someone secure the movie rights or book rights from them? Stuff happening to you doesn't exactly mean you've created something and should have copyright, or does it?

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[–] PhilLab@feddit.org 1 points 4 weeks ago

Thanks for the answers! I guess the more interesting part (for me) lies not in whole autobiographies, but more in individual events, where I've heard "so-und-so has already acquired the movie rights". I always wondered: but why?

And the answer seems to be: it's just easier that way