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?
Libel is pretty hard to prove. Historically, you can probably get away with a little libel to sell books, fyi. But you didn’t hear it from me.