What if your script is based off a real person and you're waiting for permission from their estate before submitting your script? Could you have your script dramatizing that person's life copyrighted BEFORE permission is obtained or AFTER?
The above contains two separate questions. First:
Could you have your script dramatizing that person's life copyrighted BEFORE permission is obtained or AFTER?
You can copyright your script at any time regardless of the subject matter.
Click here for more information on how to copyright your spec. What if your script is based off a real person and you're waiting for permission from their estate before submitting your script?
That is a different question entirely. You can write and submit any spec, regardless of subject matter, as a writing sample. However, if you plan to submit a script based on a real person with the intention of having it produced, I advise speaking to an entertainment attorney regarding the legalities. Writing a script based on a real person to use as a writing sample is one thing. Selling/producing a script based on a real person is another;
you can be sued.
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