Hi Richard, I hear you on this. Be responsible to the audience and tell the larger truth. I'm doing a bio podcast right now and the legal team has buried me with requests for source citations for any person or situation which is factual. So what about that? Some factual situations clearly need to be used and the need to cite everything in the script suggests a fear of litigation, Olivia de Havilland style. Thoughts?
Thanks, Mark! I'll comment more fully regarding this issue in a future 'cast. Regarding fear of litigation, anybody can sue anybody for any reason. Avoiding conflict cannot be the organizing principle for writers or anybody else, seems to me.
I hear you Richard. In this case it’s all driven by the distribution partner and their attorneys. I don’t have a choice in the matter -except to decline the project.
Hi Richard, I hear you on this. Be responsible to the audience and tell the larger truth. I'm doing a bio podcast right now and the legal team has buried me with requests for source citations for any person or situation which is factual. So what about that? Some factual situations clearly need to be used and the need to cite everything in the script suggests a fear of litigation, Olivia de Havilland style. Thoughts?
Thanks, Mark! I'll comment more fully regarding this issue in a future 'cast. Regarding fear of litigation, anybody can sue anybody for any reason. Avoiding conflict cannot be the organizing principle for writers or anybody else, seems to me.
I hear you Richard. In this case it’s all driven by the distribution partner and their attorneys. I don’t have a choice in the matter -except to decline the project.