Another famous example for such a common lie is the story of "Little Red Riding Hood", which was really rejected by an Italian legal court. As far as I know, in Italy, even fictional characters can be judged by legal courts as long as there is public interest and someone who was probably traumatized by this fairy-tale in his or her childhood, made a legal complaint against this "little fairy-tale-slut with her exciting red clothes and caps".
Believe it or not, the Italian court found the poor wolf "innocent" and to be a victim of the bad defamation of the "Little Red Riding Hood" and her family!
There even was a German newspaper story - "The Affair of the Little Red Riding Hood" - about that Italian court decision some decades ago, because we Germans were absolutely shocked that our fairy-tale's female hero was in fact a little criminal "Lolita" although many of our German animal rights activists were celebrating because they always claimed this special poor wolf must have been absolutely innocent:
www.zeit.de
So, we see, justice can be done even centuries after "fictional" crimes and truth will always triumph in the end!