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So it really started with Martin Luther King's descendants disgracing his heritage.
by Maro 15y ago
So it really started with Martin Luther King's descendants disgracing his heritage.
- arethuza 15y agoNot really, according to the article: "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."
- ck2 15y agoThere is a difference in going to court to protect it from being misused and sold without his consent to trying to lock it away so it can be a profit making item.
- rdtsc 15y agoIt is a case of going overboard. Initially they didn't care probably. But then they saw someone making money off it. So they didn't just go and stop that particular instance but went further and made sure nobody would be able to do it. They saw how money could be made from it, and decided they should be the ones profiting from it.
- squidfood 15y agoAlso note that it would be out of copyright now according to the law at that time.
- brudgers 15y agoAccoding to the article: The lawsuit was filed in 1963 when Dr. King was very much alive.
- lnanek 15y agoSeemed to start with King himself, according to the article. It seems like both him and his family donate the proceeds, however, which makes me feel better about the whole deal: " King himself donated proceeds from licensing the speech to fund the civil rights movement, and the King family has made similar pledges. "