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Discotrish
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I'm putting together a book of humorous essays, and I'd like to quote some dead people on my back cover. (You know how hard is to get a "blurb" from the living!) I'm not worried about defaming them, but I AM worried that perhaps people who own their estates would find cause to sue, since the dead people in question would be "endorsing" my book.
I plan to clearly identify this as fictitious, but I don't want to fight a lawsuit. How does that stand legally? Does it matter how long the person has been dead? (ie quoting Mark Twain vs quoting more recently deceased Erma Bombeck) I plan to make up the quotes. It would sort of be a parody of the traditional back cover quote tradition.
Patti in FLORIDA
I plan to clearly identify this as fictitious, but I don't want to fight a lawsuit. How does that stand legally? Does it matter how long the person has been dead? (ie quoting Mark Twain vs quoting more recently deceased Erma Bombeck) I plan to make up the quotes. It would sort of be a parody of the traditional back cover quote tradition.
Patti in FLORIDA