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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
Is there any precedent for applying this to an autobiography? If you could apply the law in that way, then you should be able to apply it to any non-fiction book. After all, people are buying the book for the content, so if you can sue because the content is false, you could sue for any non-fiction book that had false contents - and there would be a lot of them.
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Not an autobiography, but Irving and Howard Hughes is one where a purchaser (the publisher) sued.
Other non-fiction books are in the same position as autobiographies, as they ought to be. Inducing people to buy them by making fraudulent claims about their contents would be actionable.