In this chapter, I highlight the following situations which are somewhat unique to books and other printed material:
• using a fictional work as the subject matter of your book
• telling a person’s life story
• protecting recipes through copyright
• publishing a periodical with material provided by freelancers
• triggering libel claims through headlines, apart from the text itself
I say these situations are somewhat unique to books because some of these issues arise in film and television as well as other media. For convenience and also because most film and television projects begin in the written form of a script, I have somewhat arbitrarily ...
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