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The Copyright Nightmare of 'I Have a Dream'
CoveredTrax writes "If you weren't alive to witness Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech on the Washington Mall 48 years ago this week, you might try to switch on the old YouTube and dial it up. But you won't find it there or anywhere else; rights to its usage remain with King and his family. Typically, a speech broadcast to a large audience on radio and television (and considered instrumental in historic political changes and ranked as the most important speech in 20th century American history) would seem to be a prime candidate for the public domain. But the copyright dilemma began in December 1963, when King sued Mister Maestro, Inc., and Twentieth Century Fox Records Company to stop the unauthorized sale of records of the 17-minute oration."
Not to be mean or tawdry, but I would assume the answer to that question is "women."
Except for ending slavery, the Nazis, communism, & securing American independence, war has never solved anything.
You now own the King family $120,128.
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Members of celebrities families are greedy free-riding bastards who hang on their relatives coattails. In other news, rodent attacks man. More at 11.
Why bring Jimmy Carter into this?
You now own the King family $120,128.
He owns them? I thought we had made more progress than that...
As I understand it it's now 95 years after the creator's death so we have 52 years left.
The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
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Now I know why the evangelists waited 70 years before writing it down.