Sujet : Re: MT VOID, 10/18/24 -- Vol. 43, No. 16, Whole Number 2350 [a little late]
De : kfl (at) *nospam* KeithLynch.net (Keith F. Lynch)
Groupes : rec.arts.sf.fandomDate : 29. Oct 2024, 04:29:56
Autres entêtes
Organisation : United Individualist
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Hal Heydt wrote:
Dorothy was once told, by someone in the business, that the sole and
exclusive purpopse of a studio Research Department was to answer
one--and only one--question: Can this get us sued?
I'd think that for historical fiction, the answer is always no. Under
our system, nobody can sue when a dead person is defamed.
Otherwise, the heirs of Gus Grissom would have sued the producers of
The Right Stuff into the poorhouse.
-- Keith F. Lynch - http://keithlynch.net/Please see http://keithlynch.net/email.html before emailing me.