Articles on privacy and publicity rights for authors: revealing private facts about real people in a book.
AI WritingA Florida woman typed threats into an AI chatbot and the company sent them to the police. On the surface it's an easy call. Underneath, private companies are deciding which of your private words get reported, and liability pushes them…
DefamationWhen a book uses real names, everyone who helped publish it can be sued, from the author to the ghostwriter to the publisher. Here is how the dead, the living and celebrity estates differ, and how to settle the risk…
CybersecurityI have four Alexa devices. The screen models push ads, they answer when nobody called them, and one took over a device I never connected. Here are the settings I'd change today and the rooms where a smart speaker never…
AI CopyrightUsing AI to critique your manuscript won't get your book stolen, but most chatbots can train on what you upload unless you turn it off. Here's why I switched it off on day one, and where the real theft happens.
FamilyIf you're an adult, publishing your ghostwritten memoir is your decision. The question is how much of a family blow-up you can take, and how a ghostwriter can reduce the legal and personal damage.
FamilyIf you want to write about losing someone to suicide, a ghostwriter can help you do it with care. Build the book around the person and the life you've lived since, keep the method off the page, and take the…
FamilyWriting a memoir about depression or mental illness can do you real good, and a ghostwriter takes the blank page off your hands. Pace the interviews to your health, keep your therapist in the loop, and decide early how much…
FamilyParents of children with special needs carry knowledge the next family desperately needs. A ghostwriter can turn it into a memoir that protects your child's privacy, respects an adult child's consent, and fits around the realities of caregiving.
FamilyInfertility and adoption stories rarely get told at the dinner table, and a memoir is where they belong. A ghostwriter can help you write one while protecting your partner, the birth parents and the child at the center of it.
AI WritingTwo months after the Hugging Face break-in, OpenAI is still counting what its AI agents did. The count now includes 53 leaked ChatGPT user images and a health data portal in Australia, and outsiders keep finding the cases first.
DefamationYour story is yours, but the people in it have rights of their own. A memoir ghostwriter explains release forms, photo and letter permissions, libel insurance and what a legal read catches.
AI vs Human GhostwritingYour ghostwriting interviews hold the most private material you'll ever share. Here's where the recordings go, whether they can end up training AI, and what to ask before you sign.
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