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Permalink Reply by scribbler on March 27, 2011 at 8:02pm

It's hard when you've not specified more what your book's about and the context you use them in, Joan but I'll try. It would also help if you specify what you want your disclaimer to accomplish.

 

Try this generator if you will be including affiliate links to the companies or links where you've either been paid for their inclusion or given the products/services free, Joan. It's designed for bloggers that have advertising/affiliate/promotional relationships with companies. You can pick and choose from different options and tweak it as you wish.

 

http://disclosurepolicy.org/

 

If you have no such relationship with the companies, that's all you need say. "I do not receive any form of compensation, either monetary or products/services from the companies I have recommended in this book and have no professional relationships with these companies. These is my personal recommendations."

 

On the deceased people side, you may need to be more careful. I'm not sure what the etiquette is for that. As I said, if you can say more about your book it would help and what context they are used in.

 

If it's a memoir/autobiography, this may help. http://www.askdavetaylor.com/is_it_legal_to_talk_about_our_personal...

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Permalink Reply by Aries on March 28, 2011 at 12:03am

"This is a work of fiction, all depictions of private individuals, locations, other works, and groups are made in the context of the setting." should do the trick.

On the deceased people side, you may need to be more careful. I'm not sure what the etiquette is for that.

There isn't one, under US law, if someone dies, their reputation dies with them. It's legally impossible to defame the dead, meaning you have free reign to say what you want about them. However, no publisher would touch a work that was created solely to blacken the name of a loved and famous individual.

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Permalink Reply by scribbler on March 28, 2011 at 1:38am

That's true. I wasn't concerned so much about defamation as she had mentioned all comments were positive, Aries. I was thinking more that remaining family members may not welcome their relative's inclusion in a book no matter how nice it was for whatever reason. If it were me, I'd attempt to contact them to advise them of the book and how their relative's name was coming up in it as a courtesy.

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Permalink Reply by Joan Hennessey on March 28, 2011 at 4:26am

Thanks, folks. The book mentions corporations connected with cooking equipment. I have covered this one. The folks I mention by name were famous (in their time) figures. I know about not hurting the dead. Others are in the fictional portion of the book. The stuff is semi-autobiographical. We write about things we know, don't we?
Will check out your suggested sites.
Thanks again.

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