Martin Luther King Jr's Children In Court Over MLK IP 344
cervesaebraciator writes "Slashdot has reported before about the copyright nightmare of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I Have a Dream' Speech. Now, questions of intellectual property and the legacy of Dr. King have caused his children to go to court. The estate, run by King's sons, claims the rights to the intellectual property and memorabilia of Dr. King as assets. Accordingly, it has filed suit against the non-profit Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Change, run by King's daughter, for plans to continue using King memorabilia once a royalty-free licensing agreement expires, (which the estate says will be in September). As is the case with increasing frequency, one is left to wonder about the implications intellectual property claims have for free speech when they can be applied to so public a figure as Dr. King."
Re:I have a dream (Score:4, Informative)
It wasn't quite ad-libbed. Dr. King had already given a good portion of the "I have a dream" speech at a smaller rally in Detroit, but had cut that part from the speech that he was to give in Washington, as he didn't want to look like he was repeating himself. The story goes that midway through his speech at the March on Washington, gospel singer Mahalia Jackson shouted, "Tell 'em about the dream, Martin!" as you allude to in your post. At which point Dr. King uttered the famous line, "I still have a dream." The members of the crowd that had been at the Detroit rally began cheering, because they knew what was coming.
Re:Parasitic leeches. (Score:5, Informative)
They exemplify EVERYTHING that's wrong with it? I can think of far, far more examples of things that they aren't exemplifying that's wrong with the world.
This is a family disagreement that has spilled over to an organization tied to the family. Yes it's ugly. Yes MLK probably would have non-violently spanked all his kids over it. But it's hardly exemplify what's wrong with the world.
Re:I have a dream (Score:4, Informative)
Copyright before 1976 did NOT automatically get granted when the ideas hit a fixed form.
Re:End of a Dream (Score:5, Informative)
George Zimmerman would never have seen prosecution if he was black or Trayvon was white; guilty or not the evidence just wasn't there.
What kind of crack are you smoking? 1. He followed Trayvon -- he was the one doing the assaulting....
Following ! = assaulting.
He was on the phone with 911 when he was asked where the suspicious person (person pacing in front of a house). George got out to look. The 911 operator (not a cop) told him he didn't have to look for him, and George said "Ok" and stopped looking. He went across the residential block to get an address, turned back and started to go back to his truck. At that point 911 closed the call.
Trayvon was on the phone too, to his friend Dee-Dee. She stated he made it all the way back to the back yard of the house he was staying at. He then decided to *GO BACK* and confront George, Dee-Dee lost contact when she said she heard a fight break out. We have a timestamp when the call ended.
From when George told the 911 operator he lost sight of Trayvon, to the point when the fight broke out, was 4 minutes. The house Trayvon was staying at was less than 100 yards away. Four minutes was more than enough time to get back home. It is enough time to head home, then decide to head back... And based on Trayvon's social media, he was one to pick a fight with people. This is based on evidence.
We also know that Trayvon's mother sent Trayvon to live with his father because she couldn't control him.
We also know that George didn't land a single punch, or attack until he was able to get his gun out. We also know Trayvon did hit George many times. I don't think you can assault somebody's fist with your face....
Everything points to Trayvon was upset that some guy was watching him and wanted to teach that guy a lesson... And he picked a fight with a person who could defend himself.
Re:End of a Dream (Score:2, Informative)
He didn't shoot from his car. Are you on drugs or something?
Re:End of a Dream (Score:4, Informative)
There was no car involved, the younger man was shot while on top of the older man, apparently attempting to release his brains from his skull with the assistance of the concrete below. Read the trial transcripts.
Re:End of a Dream (Score:5, Informative)
The drug concoction was a drug called "Lean", "Purple Lean", "Sizzurp", or "Purple Drank". Trayvon's recipe called for Arizona Ice Tea brand Watermelon Fruit-punch cocktail, Cough Syrup (preferably with codeine) and skittles. It's one of the reasons why cough syrup is sold behind the counter.
Feel free to look up "Trayvon Lean facebook" and see posts by Trayvon on making the stuff... Also look up the LA times article "Lil Wayne hospitalized; sizzurp's powerful high, deadly side effects"
Re:End of a Dream (Score:3, Informative)
Trayvon, in fact, had become a devotee of the druggy concoction known as “Lean,” also known in southern hip-hop culture as “Sizzurp” and “Purple Drank.” Lean consists of three basic ingredients — codeine, a soft drink, and candy. If his Facebook postings are to be believed, Trayvon had been using Lean since at least June 2011.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3044402/posts [freerepublic.com]
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Re:End of a Dream (Score:5, Informative)
He followed and provoked someone then killed him.
You skipped a few steps there.
- Zimmerman followed Trayvon, then turned around and went back to his truck. 911 tapes and witness testimony confirmed this (prosecution witness no less.)
- He got out of his truck to check the address so that he could tell the police and so they could find him. Again, confirmed by 911 tapes.
- Trayvon, who was 3 minutes away from being home, decides to turn around and go after "that cracker" (referring to Zimmerman) instead of continuing home.
- While Zimmerman is checking the address, Trayvon assaults Zimmerman, tells him he's going to die tonight. A witness sees Trayvon straddling Zimmerman on the ground and assaulting him. Zimmerman has wounds on both the front and back of his head, including a broken nose and lacerations. Trayvon has no notable injuries.
You can clearly see, which prosecution witnesses even testified to, that Zimmerman not only stopped following him, but Trayvon, who could have returned home, instead came after Zimmerman and then assaulted him.
The problem is that people like you who believe Zimmerman was guilty think it was just a simple matter of "Zimmerman followed and then killed Trayvon" when that statement isn't even remotely accurate due to how much context it discards.
Let's suppose that "creating the situation" gives the other party permission to assault you (it doesn't,) that "situation" was over the minute Zimmerman returned to his truck to wait for the police. The "situation" in which Trayvon was killed was started when Trayvon decided to return to assault Zimmerman.