When plagiarism/copyright infringement occurs and the person committing such dies what happens next?
I’m a little confused from your site how what happened is copyright infringement. If I know a lot about Wayne Rooney, and I write a biography about him, then the fact he brings out his own autobiography every five years can’t stop me. If I wrote fiction based on his life then again I don’t see what right he’d have to stop me. If he were identifiable from the book then I might have to face the consequences of any libel I’d committed against him, but you don’t have copyright over your “life”. Copyright vests in a creative work, what did you do creatively that has copyright vested in it? What did he plagiarise? If it was the letters, then simply taking the facts from the letters might be plagiarism. If the letters you sent to him about your own life were private, and were intended between you both to remain so, and he disclosed the contents in his books, then you might have a claim for a breach of your privacy. This is the same claim that Max Mosely brought against the News of the World,
