So long as someone else isn’t making money on your name or defaming other people, it can be OK for them to impersonate you on Twitter. The recent revelation that a faker had been impersonating Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Cormac McCarthy on Twitter prompted a flurry of mostly amused discussion in literary and cyber circles. But it’s also raised questions about the legality of such pretenses. Michael Crossan, an unpublished writer, created a fake Twitter account, @CormacCMcCarthy.com, which attracted 6,000 followers, …
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