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The contested world of literary estates
- Bucephalus355 8y agoI’ve always heard the Martin Luther King Jr. estate is particularly vicious. This could be absolutely not true and I would ask and very much appreciate being corrected if wrong. That being said, my understanding is that if his I Have A Dream speech gets printed (text not video recordings of it) you will get sued into the ground. The last case I can remember / confirm with Google was a textbook publisher that quoted more than the allowed 12 word limit. What are these people thinking? https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/01/selma-martin-luther-king-can-you-copyright-a-dream-114187 https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/01/selma-martin...
- onetimemanytime 8y ago>>What are these people thinking? M O N E Y. While paying lip service to their father /grandfather /etc., and the "need" to make sure his words are not taken out of context, used by bad people etc.