Q: Can I sue a movie production company for invasion of privacy if they used the name of my dead dad in a movie ?
Can I sue a movie production company for invasion of privacy because they used the name of my dead dad in a movie about terrorism? (My dad was a uh .. a terrorist.. ) The movie is really famous and we found out that they used his name in it through our relatives who saw the movie and noticed it.
A:
Your real problem is this is prime First Amendment territory. If the accusations were true, or reasonably close within artistic license, it will be hard to complain. You can't had bad acts behind the veil of privacy, particularly if they are terroristic, which are by nature intended to be public and to create public fear, distraction, and reaction. Calling that out in film and news and other media is fair game.
That your family got dragged into this horrible mess is not the movie company's fault, it was your fathers. The more that you ca distance yourself from his actions, the better. If it is very bad, consider a name change.
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