UC Law SF Communications and Entertainment Journal
Abstract
In 1956, Twentieth Century-Fox contracted with Christine Costner Sizemore for rights to her life story. At the time, Sizemore was suffering from a multiple personality disorder, which the resulting movie The Three Faces of Eve dramatized. Sizemore has since recovered. In 1989, she tried to sell option rights for a movie based on her third biography. Twentieth Century-Fox sought an injunction, claiming it exclusively owned the movie rights to her life story. The author explores the parameters necessary for drafting life story contracts, as well as the recourse available to a subject whose life story is appropriated for a movie without a contract.
Recommended Citation
Michelle E. Lentzner,
My Life, My Story, Right - Fashioning Life Story Rights in the Motion Picture Industry,
12 UC Law SF Comm. & Ent. L.J. 627
(1990).
Available at: https://repository.uclawsf.edu/hastings_comm_ent_law_journal/vol12/iss4/6
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