: Re: Can someone publish a story that happened to you? Can someone take a story that happened to you, without your knowledge, and publish it? Using your name and specifics, and take the copyright

Assuming you are in the US...

Copyright will likely protect this author's expression of the facts. This means that you cannot copy phrases from the book (for example), but you can write a different book about the same event. (This is true no matter whose father the book is about, actually.) Copyright.gov says:

Copyright does not protect facts, ideas, systems, or methods of operation, although it may protect the way these things are expressed.

In other words, it doesn't seem to me like you have a case for a copyright angle were you to sue.

There may be other angles for you to pursue, but only a lawyer can tell you what those would be. There's just too little information to go on.

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