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The contested world of literary estates (newstatesman.com)
11 points by drjohnson on Jan 6, 2019 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


I’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...


>>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.




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