QUESTION
Is it illegal to tell a story online and not tell people it's fiction?
Asked on Jun 10th, 2019 on Criminal Law - Connecticut
More details to this question:
I would like to get a book published, but I want to have it self published so as to keep the rights to my book. I was thinking, as a way of promoting the book, expanding the character to social media and speak from the characters point of view without actually saying that it's not real. This way people believe it's real and then I have free promotion and a social media following that would allow me to sell a self published book and keep all my proceeds.
1 ANSWER
That sounds like a very interesting idea. Depending on what your story is about you might be ok. There are limitations even on your freedom of speech. You should review what those limitations are (ie. hate speech, etc.) If you intend to cause some type of distrubance you may not be protected. For instance you cannot run into a theatre and scream "Fire." Be careful. You would be well advised to also send it in to the Library of Congress to record.
Answered on Jun 10th, 2019 at 10:22 AM
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