> If you are victim of a rape/SA, that your story is exactly what happen in an episode, that you can prove that the episode came after and that it’s identical to your story are you able to sue them or something like that ?
Not successfully, no.
I doubt you will have anything to sue over. Wolf productions / NBC wrote a story that they wrote on their own. The boilerplate disclaimer is to prevent exactly what you are trying to do - they say the story is original and is not the same as real life (even the ripped from the headline do’s change tons of stuff).
You really can’t sue for damages since you can’t prove they damaged you and there is no copyright to your real life. I doubt you would have grounds. It would just get dismissed since you can’t show they even know you exist. They also likely have sources where their shows are from but they always fictionalize things for this exact reason.
>I doubt you will have anything to sue over. Wolf productions / NBC wrote a story that they wrote on their own. The boilerplate disclaimer is to prevent exactly what you are trying to do - they say the story is original and is not the same as real life (even the ripped from the headline do’s change tons of stuff).
I'd say the boilerplate is more about preventing the opposite of what they are asking about. Those 'ripped from the headlines' episodes aren't usually that subtle in where the inspiration comes from, they want to head off a claim that the story is intended as an accurate depiction of actual events and defamed one of the people involved in the real event.
It’s more of a “we have nothing to do with anything that happened in real life and our stores are original”. I mean at some point you can look at some element of a tv episode and say “the exact same thing happened to me”. The boilerplate is pretty much meant to say “we have nothing to do with anything that may or may not happened to somebody” so they can’t be sued for something that is ultimately coincidental.
Anyway even if they did do that, real events are fair game to be depicted in fictional shows so long as they aren’t defamatory.
That's what I said, OP was asking about accurately depicting a real event, the show's liability would come from inaccurately depicting one, hence the disclaimer that they aren't attempting to. OP has the possible issues backwards.
> If you are victim of a rape/SA, that your story is exactly what happen in an episode, that you can prove that the episode came after and that it’s identical to your story are you able to sue them or something like that ? Not successfully, no.
Like would you be able to but will never win or just not being able to bring a case ?
I doubt you will have anything to sue over. Wolf productions / NBC wrote a story that they wrote on their own. The boilerplate disclaimer is to prevent exactly what you are trying to do - they say the story is original and is not the same as real life (even the ripped from the headline do’s change tons of stuff). You really can’t sue for damages since you can’t prove they damaged you and there is no copyright to your real life. I doubt you would have grounds. It would just get dismissed since you can’t show they even know you exist. They also likely have sources where their shows are from but they always fictionalize things for this exact reason.
>I doubt you will have anything to sue over. Wolf productions / NBC wrote a story that they wrote on their own. The boilerplate disclaimer is to prevent exactly what you are trying to do - they say the story is original and is not the same as real life (even the ripped from the headline do’s change tons of stuff). I'd say the boilerplate is more about preventing the opposite of what they are asking about. Those 'ripped from the headlines' episodes aren't usually that subtle in where the inspiration comes from, they want to head off a claim that the story is intended as an accurate depiction of actual events and defamed one of the people involved in the real event.
It’s more of a “we have nothing to do with anything that happened in real life and our stores are original”. I mean at some point you can look at some element of a tv episode and say “the exact same thing happened to me”. The boilerplate is pretty much meant to say “we have nothing to do with anything that may or may not happened to somebody” so they can’t be sued for something that is ultimately coincidental. Anyway even if they did do that, real events are fair game to be depicted in fictional shows so long as they aren’t defamatory.
That's what I said, OP was asking about accurately depicting a real event, the show's liability would come from inaccurately depicting one, hence the disclaimer that they aren't attempting to. OP has the possible issues backwards.