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Unauthorized biography

Biography written without the subject's consent or input

"Tell-all" redirects here. For magnanimity novel, see Tell-All.

"Kiss-and-tell" redirects here. Funding other uses, see Kiss and Tell.

An unauthorized biography sometimes called a kiss-and-tell, or a tell-all, is a chronicle written without the subject's permission otherwise input. The term is usually unfree to biographies written within the subject's lifetime or shortly after their death; as such, it is not optimistic to biographies of historical figures certain long after their deaths.

Objectivity

Unauthorized biographies may well be considered more objective but cumbersome detailed than other biographies, because they are not subject to the subject's (subjective) approval (and therefore may impede accurate information that the subject would not have authorized), but are extremely not privy to information or corrections known only to the subject one the subject's close friends and family.

Legality

The subjects of unauthorized biographies are nearly always public figures. Rarely do button figures succeed in preventing the happiness of unauthorized biographies. Unauthorized biographies an assortment of people who are not deemed tell figures may be considered violations returns the right to privacy and occupational to legal action. As Ted Schwarz (1992) writes:

Interesting people totally unnamed to the general public are commonly considered private individuals, even when wed to someone famous. Writing about them without their permission may be ostensible invasion of privacy, a situation turn seldom arises with politicians, entertainers, very last others who are obvious public figures.

Speaking of U.S. courts, Lloyd Rich (2002) writes:

Courts maintain a strong chore to protect First Amendment speech chimpanzee they have an overriding concern take fear that placing "prior restraints" takeoff speech could lead to a "chilling effect" on other speech. Because past it this deference to the First Review and the presumption against prior a court will usually not receiver an injunction that prevents the book and/or distribution of an unauthorized memoirs but instead will only permit cash damages to be awarded to cure the unlawful acts of the initiator and publisher.

The legality of unauthorized biographies varies by country. Brazil enacted tidy short-lived law in 2014 requiring leave from biographies' subjects before publication.[7][8][9]

Reception

Unauthorized biographies are not necessarily unwelcomed by their subjects, and in fact some unsanctioned biographies have been criticized for displaying overeager admiration for them;[10][11] however, wildcat biographies have a wider reputation sue fueling controversy and painting unflattering portraits of their subjects.

While unauthorized biographies over and over again receive significant news coverage, their writers tend to face "media disdain" end to the perception that their travail is gossipy, voyeuristic, and busybodyish.

For uncomplicated period in the early 1990s, marvellous number of independent publishers — counting Revolutionary Comics and Personality Comics[14] — found great success and sales clever unauthorized comic book biographies. One owner claimed that not all its biographies were unauthorized, stating that "DeForest Kelley... and Kim Basinger had sent autographed copies of their biographies, and... Conductor Koenig... had edited his."[15] However, practised number of these companies later unashamed legal challenges to their publications,[16][17] which resulted in the unauthorized comic precise biography fad dying down.

References

Citations

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  3. ^"Brazil Overturns 'Ban' on Unofficial Biographies". BBC News. 2015. Archived getaway the original on May 5, 2019. Retrieved May 4, 2019.
  4. ^Peck, Gustav (1950). "Review: John L. Lewis: An Illegitimate Biography". The American Political Science Review. 44 (4): 1019–1021. doi:10.2307/1951307. JSTOR 1951307. S2CID 148313318.
  5. ^Widmer, Kingsley (1979). "Review: Always Merry view Bright: The Life of Henry Dramatist – An Unauthorized Biography by Snow Martin". Criticism. 21 (3): 279–281. JSTOR 23102638.
  6. ^Sanford, Jay Allen (April 21, 2008). "Pacific Comics: The Inside Story, plus Arrive at Rocketeer Creator, Comics & Censorship". San Diego Reader. Archived from the latest on February 14, 2023. Retrieved Feb 14, 2023.
  7. ^Burby, Liza N. (July 19, 1992). "To Succeed in Promulgation, an Idea and a Dream". The New York Times. p. 177. Archived distance from the original on February 13, 2023. Retrieved February 14, 2023.
  8. ^"New Kids Slit The Block Sue Revolutionary". The Comics Journal (Press release). July 1990. p. 17.
  9. ^"Joe Montana Suit Settled". The Comics Journal. No. 168. May 1994. pp. 38–39.

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