Hastings Communications and Entertainment Law Journal Volume 14 | Number 4 Article 1 1-1-1992 Docudramas: The Legality of Producing Fact- Based Dramas - What Every Producer's Attorney Should Know Jacqui Gold Grunfeld Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.uchastings.edu/ hastings_comm_ent_law_journal Part of the Communications Law Commons, Entertainment, Arts, and Sports Law Commons, and the Intellectual Property Law Commons Recommended Citation Jacqui Gold Grunfeld, Docudramas: The Legality of Producing Fact-Based Dramas - What Every Producer's Attorney Should Know, 14 Hastings Comm. & Ent. L.J. 483 (1992). Available at: https://repository.uchastings.edu/hastings_comm_ent_law_journal/vol14/iss4/1 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Law Journals at UC Hastings Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Hastings Communications and Entertainment Law Journal by an authorized editor of UC Hastings Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Docudramas: The Legality of Producing Fact-Based Dramas-What Every Producer's Attorney Should Know by JACQUI GOLD GRUNFELD* Table of Contents I. Introduction .............................................. 485 A. Docudrama: A Popular Form of Entertainment ....... 485 B. Producing Docudramas ............................... 487 II. Potential Liabilities When Rights Are Not Secured ......... 488 A . Introduction ......................................... 488 B. Defamation Law: Libel ..............................