# How is stopping someone making a film about very famous public figure not a 1A violation? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [March 21, 2022, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-stopping-someone-making-a-film-about-very-famous-public-figure-not-a-1a-violation/961445 "2022-03-21T19:29:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 36
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2022, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-stopping-someone-making-a-film-about-very-famous-public-figure-not-a-1a-violation/961445/36 "2022-03-21T23:16:39Z")
> [@griffin1977](#): > > Again _absolutely_ 100% very very wrong. The government saying “stop saying this thing or we will use government force to take all your money” is covered by the 1st amendment whether its a fine in a criminal court or a judgement in a civil court. Your repeated use of “absolutely” in this thread is really misplaced, as your understanding of the 1st amendment is incorrect. The 1st says that “Congress may make no laws…” respecting freedom of speech. That’s entirely different than some notion that the judiciary can’t enforce property rights or provide injunctive relief. > [@griffin1977](#): > > How does the same law that stops people using Billy Joel and Kurt Cobain’s likeness without being sued out of existence not allow apply to Dick Cheney Are you familiar with the Streisand Effect? There are reasons to not sue that have nothing to do with whether a person was defamed or their likeness was misused. > **[Streisand effect](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect)** > > The Streisand effect is an unintended consequence of attempts to hide, remove, or censor information, where the effort instead backfires by increasing awareness of that information. It is named after American singer and actress Barbra Streisand, whose attempt to suppress the California Coastal Records Project's photograph of her cliff-top residence in Malibu, California, taken to document California coastal erosion, inadvertently drew far greater attention to the previously obscure photograph i... --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-stopping-someone-making-a-film-about-very-famous-public-figure-not-a-1a-violation/961445)._