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Explain Like I'm Five

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I understand that someone might be a valuable firsthand source to get interesting details and core pieces of a real story right. But how can someone secure the movie rights or book rights from them? Stuff happening to you doesn't exactly mean you've created something and should have copyright, or does it?

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